The VRC project aims at transferring the benefits of the space and IT directly to the communities at the grass root level to uplift the life and livelihood of rural areas. The project as envisaged is meant to serve as a resource centre to address various primary need based requirements of the local communities such as education, health, weather, agriculture and livelihoods opportunities. One of the main aims of the VRCs is to use developments in the field of IT and space technologies to empower rural communities by enabling greater capacity building and awareness. The project aims at increased productivity and sustainability of natural resources, human development and economic sustainability.
Major
objectives of the project are:
·
To generate
advisories on agriculture, land and water management to better utilize
the available resources and to mitigate the negative impacts. This aims
mainly on maximizing the economic output from the available resources.
Existing land use and land cover pattern and planning for better and
optimum land use pattern can be planned with these informations enabling
better productivity results.
·
Ensure
greater access to information on land, water, soil etc so as to educate
and empower the local communities for greater conservation and
sustainable utilization of these resources. The accessibility of
information also will improve the capability of the rural communities
for better development planning and ensure equitable bargaining power in
a skewed social system.
·
Capacity
building of the community to ensure greater awareness with respect to
the basic human development indicators like health, education, child
care, female literacy, adult education, etc. This health related and
social aspects will improve the standard of living and overall
development.
·
Providing
enhanced livelihood opportunities with wider dissemination of
information for greater economic growth. This will create greater
opportunities among the rural masses both at the entrepreneurial level
creating greater employment opportunities and opportunity for self
employment
·
Providing
information on price, market, pests, diseases, livestock, govt. schemes,
job opportunities, e-governance related information etc. The market
services can result in better economic gains to the grass-root producer
who is hitherto deprived of these opportunity costs.
The job opportunities and e-governance related information would
widen the life scope of the rural youth.
·
To provide
Tele education and tele healthcare services. Tele-education and health
care has a very wide scope to create a revolutionary change in the rural
sector. One of the reason for education and health care is the
non-accessibility of our rural interiors. This has always bogged down
our development initiative and efforts.
The tele-network in these lines through VRCs can be a remedy in
these lines.
·
Overall
empowerment of the rural community by catering to Rural Human
development through health, sanitation, child care, female literacy
adult education informal education etc
· To ensure and provide linkages with various development initiatives. To act as a catalyst for ensuring transparency in all sectors of rural development. The information and communication capabilities will breath a new life in the level of transparency in the public sector.