Government Degree Colleges are spread across the state in all the districts. Most of them are located in rural and semi urban areas. They 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. They need additional support. Although each district has about 8 to 12 Government Degree Colleges and they are working as total individual entities so far. Pooling and sharing of resources will benefit students of all colleges’ especially rural colleges.
The Government Degree Colleges in each district, therefore, were networked with a select government college in the district, called the District Resource Centre (DRC). Year long activities are planned and implemented by the colleges of the district under the DRC for the benefit of students in the subject and general areas. The DRCs are expected to tentatively compensate some of the disadvantages faced by the students of all colleges, especially the rural colleges
OBJECTIVES
*Identifying the subject and student needs and shortages
*Pooling and sharing the resources for the benefit of all students, especially the rural students
*District-level crash programmes, seminars, workshops 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
*Strengthening the existing infrastructural, material and human resources
CONCEPT
The District Resource Centers are functioning in 9 districts of the state from 2007-08. It’s an innovative programme initiated for the benefit of students in general and rural students in particular.
Suggestive Activities
The activities shall be at the district level and the participation of students from all colleges, rural colleges in particular of the district. The Lecturer/principal of the college concerned shall choose the participating student teams. The other guidelines can be finalized in the DRCs itself. The activities shall give clear, visible and quantifiable benefits to students.
*Conducting district level seminars, expert lectures, panel discussions, academic competitions, career guidance programmes etc.
*Organizing short-term summer programmes, certificate courses, training programmes,workshops etc.for improving various skills of students, including communicative, soft and ICT skills and job/self employment oriented skills
*Special training for preparing students for competitive examination for higher studies, research institutes, employment etc.
*Visits of eminenet scientists, social scientists,industrialists;experts etc.for interaction with staff and students for creating the required awareness
*Conducting value based activities, cultural programmes, youth festivals, exhibitions etc.
*Exchange of faculty for short term teaching programmes and conduct of practicals
*Sharing of facilities by the other college students(where there are no such facilities) without affecting the routine of the host college
*Exchange of students to working teams for carrying out educational surveys, study projects, field work, hands on experience etc.
*Pooling of students for talking up of community service works
*Activities that are consequential to the schemes and programmes intiated at the Commissionerate level like JKCs, ETRP(ELF),NAAC/QAC activities,Repositioning,Training programmes,ManaTV etc
The District Resource Centre (DRC) was established in 2008 by the Commissionerate of Collegiate Education with a vision to have an exchange of teaching programme among the colleges that are established in the same district. The Girraj Government College(A) is the DRC center for Nizamabad district.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR DRC
Each college of the district contributes Rs.5000/- or Rs.10000/- depending on the strength of that college. If the college has more than 1000 strength of the students, the college will contribute Rs.10000/- . If it has less than 1000 strength of student, it has to contribute Rs. 5000/-.
The pooled money by all the colleges will be with the DRC centre and it will reimburse to the colleges after conducting the DRC programmes in their particular colleges. When any college conducts a particular programme, the students and staff members of other colleges will be invited to get benefit out of the programme.
The teachers will be exchanged from one college to other college when there is a need.
The best facilities of a lab of a particular college will be utilized by the students of other colleges.
Whenever there is an extraordinary resource person comes from outside, the DRC of the particular college will invite the resource person who will extend his lecture/performance to all the students of the district.
The DRC conducts orientation/refresher courses for newly recruited/promoted teachers.
The DRC conducts various programmes in curricular/Co-Curricular and Extra-curricular activities.
Government City College being as DRC centre of Hyderabad district conducts various programmes with the cooperation of the other colleges.