BRIEF INTRODUCTION

The Centre for Society University Interface & Research (CSUIR) is established in August 2010 to bridge the disconnection between Universities and society; which is a rich store house of knowledge and experience. CSUIR is recognized as one of the Centres of Excellence of BPSMV, which is exclusively working of serving the rural community with the resources, expertise, knowledge and guidance from eminent experts from BPSMV and other International, National and state level organizations. Centre aims to understand the concept of rural sustainability and reinforcing self reliance and empowerment of various sections of the society. CSUIR offers four add-on courses on Micro finance Practice and Women, Cooperative Management, Folk Medicines and Integrated Energy & Resource Management, in which students take admission from various internal UTDs/institutions of BPSMV, as well as outside/fresher students. Centre organizes various community engagement interventions in the nearby and adopted villages on different socially relevant issues, in such a way which reflects strong character and unique strength of our country and rural society. We have singed Memorandum of Understanding with National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI), Delhi for the course of Cooperative Management since-2014. CSUIR and NCUI have collaboration for teaching, training, field work exposure and extension lectures for the students of Cooperative Management. NCUI also facilitate our students to pursue their career in reputed Cooperative Organizations. The Centre also seeks to formulate such programmes for women that recover traditional rural practices; sustain and conserve the vast knowledge reservoir of rural women. During the COVID-19, the CSUIR was continuously in the field and involved with community people and Gram Panchayat members of all five adopted villages to aware about COVID-19, vaccination and treatment.

Vision

CSUIR is established with a vision to address challenges and issues confronted by rural communities and to improve their quality of life. Centre benefits the women, rural poor, strive to energies the democratic decentralization processes, initiate to improve the operation and efficiency of rural development interventions and promote transfer of technology in a sustainable way through its direct interventions with the Community.

Mission

To empower rural community through identifying their deep, local, regional experiences and learning and further transformed into an ethical and meaningful ways to bring positive changes in their life. Being situated within the rich and complex rural areas, Centre provides a rigorous and practical education of the highest quality, training and field exposure to passionate and engaged students of the various courses from diverse backgrounds. Centre aims to develop intellectual and creative capacities in the students in a supportive scholarly community that prioritizes student learning within and beyond our classrooms and further make them capable to be resource in helping the issues of rural community.