The Department of Lifelong Learning was established in the year 1979. The Department offers M. A. and M. Phil in Rural Development programmes. The Master degree programme in Rural Development is very vast and implies teaching and learning of basic concepts, theories, and methods. The objective is that the students passing out have the capacity to examine multi-dimensionality of rural life, processes of rural transformation, policy interventions to bring about qualitative improvements in the social and economic life of the people living in the rural areas.

The programme consists of four major components, namely social, economic, policy perspective and rural administration, and finally the extension and intervention. The core areas of teaching-learning and research therefore focuses around rural development as the overall area, supported by:

•  Economics in relation to rural economy, production, marketing, agriculture economics, etc.

•  Sociological including political sociology

•  Public administration with focus on rural civil administration, development policies, programmes, and their execution, and management of the rural system and

•  Social work to innovate and organize policy intervention strategies, rural extension services, knowledge dissemination, and meeting unmet needs of the rural communities.

The Department of Lifelong Learning has good infrastructure and well qualified Faculty to achieve its objectives of teaching-learning and research in Rural Development programme.