Government Degree Colleges in Kurnool District are located in rural and semi urban areas and these mostly serve students from poor and underprivileged sections of the society. The students of colleges located in rural areas face disadvantages like infrastructural and teacher shortages, lack of exposure to modern educational atmosphere and inadequate background support. To overcome these problems, the Government Degree Colleges in each district, were networked with identified Government Degree College in the district, called the District Resource Centre (DRC) to support mainly the rural students. KVR Government College for Girls [A], Kurnool has been identified as a potential centre from Kurnool District to meet the below mentioned objectives
The main Objectives of the DRC include:
· Develop an efficient system for circulation of centralized and College-based learning resources; and
· Ensure the most efficient distribution of learning resources throughout the District.
· Identifying the subject and student needs and shortages
· Pooling and sharing the human resources as well as material resources for the benefit of all students, especially the rural students
· District-level seminars, Capacity building programs etc. for the teachers for improving their awareness and skills in teaching
· A variety of district-level regular programmes, workshops and summer programmes for students from all the colleges of the district, in areas such as subjects, skills, career, employment etc.