KVK EAST KHASI HILLS DISTRICT

Objectives

1. Planning and conducting survey of the operational area in order to prepare the resource inventory with special reference to identify the training needs of the farming community.

2. Planning and conducting production-oriented, need-based short and long duration training courses both on campus as well as in the villages for various target groups with priority on the poor and weaker section of the society.

3. Developing and organizing non-formal educational programmes by way of field days, farm visits, farmers fair, radio talk, Farm Science clubs, etc. as follow up information support to the training courses.

4. Organizing Farm Science clubs, both in rural schools and in villages in order to induce in the younger generation a liking for and an interest for agricultural and allied sciences and scientific farming through supervised projects.

5. Providing practical facilities of the Kendra to the teachers and the student of the higher secondary schools on vocational agriculture.

6. Developing and maintaining the campus farms and demonstration units on science lines as the facilities for providing work experience to the trainees as also disseminating the latest techinical know how.

7. Imparting some general education to rural illiterates and school drop-outs in order to make them not only good farmers but also a better citzens.

8. Providing added training facilities in the areas for home making and nutrition education for the rural community.

9. Enlarging the training facilities gradually to encompass other important areas such as home crafts, cottage industries, etc. consistent to the requirements of the Integrated Rural Development in collaboration with concerned organization.

10. Implementing all such schemes of the ICAR and other related organizations which intend to strenghthen the training programmes of the Kendra.