STATE RESOURCE CENTRE FOR ADULT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION

The mandate of the State Resource Center (SRC) is to provide academic and technical resource support to adult and continuing education through development and production of material and training modules. In addition, the SRC would be required to conduct motivational and environmental building, action research and evaluation and monitoring.

Objective

To evolve into a centre of Excellence for Developmental programmes through Material Development, Capacity Building and Research.
To empower the adult by developing literacy and leadership skills through SAAKSHAR BHARAT.
To reach the unreached with different strategies

The Scope of work of the State Resource Center (SRC) broadly include

Preparation of teaching, learning and training material for Adult Education programme.
Training literacy functionaries.
Action Research.
Evaluation and monitoring of literacy projects.
Undertaking innovative projects to identify future needs of Adult education programme.

CORE DETAILS OF THE PROJECT

Year of Inception	2010
Funding Patron	Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. N.Delhi.
Project Operational Area	The Project covers the entire state of Andhra Pradesh.
Beneficiary Group	Non-literates. Semi-literates.
Beneficiaries for the year & Annual Financial Outlay	13435 non-literates and semi-literates. Rs.70.00 Lakhs.
Cumulative Beneficiary No. & Financial Outlay	274763 non-literates and semi-literates. Rs.458.51 Lakhs.
Staff Strength	The Programme is provided with 13 staff

The combined efforts of SRC, District administration, ZLSS and other departments in Vizianagaram District in their mission to make 5,00,000 adults literate on a single day has been considered as a record and entered into the Limca Book of Records.