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LEARNING SKILLS DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION (LSDE).
Relevance of the project and activity:

Under this program it is expected to promote the culture Education for All and to develop learning habits to prepare the society literate.It provides guidance for educational opportunities to persons who, because of one or other reason could not continue their education in the formal system and now wish to study and qualify for a better tomorrow. The mission of LSDE is to provide awareness to all with special concern for girls and women, rural youth, working men and women, SC and ST, handicapped and other disadvantaged groups.

The Department of lifelong learning and extension has been carrying out the literacy mission; reach to the unreached, through its e-learning and NIOS center.
Purpose:

1.   To make the participant aware of education, training and occupational choices and to
      manage their careers, secondary and senior secondary level education activities to
      assist individuals of any age and at any point throughout their lives.
2.   To make the participant aware of an intelligent flexible system of education to meet
       the challenges of access, equity and work towards development of knowledge society.
3.   To advance frontiers of knowledge and promote its dissemination through sustainable
      open and distance learning systems seamlessly accessible to all, including yet
      unreached, from among whom the leaders and innovators of tomorrow will emerge.
4.   To promote awareness for continuing education, life enrichment & vocational
      education at different level school/college/vocational institute.
5.   To serve for effective dissemination of information related to distance education and
      open learning;
6.   To provide information about available courses, admission procedures, eligibility,
      syllabus, duration etc. offered by different institutions; open education/distance
      education/vocational institutions (NIOS/YCMOU/IGNOU & other state level distance
      education institutes.
7.   To motivate and introduce students as resource team for the scheme.
8.   Provide specific need-based education and training opportunities for continuous
      professional development and skill up gradation to in-service professionals.
9.   TO Promote Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for imparting
      education.