DLLE

The Department of Lifelong Learning and Extension [DLLE]

REACH TO UNREACHED

The Department of Lifelong Learning and Extension [DLLE] (known earlier as Department of Adult and Continuing Education and Extension) established on October 12, in the Year 1978 and has been recognized as a statutory Department of the University of Mumbai since 1994 to promote a meaningful and sustained rapport between the Universities and the community. The DLLE seeks to facilitate the sensitization of students to socio-cultural realities. Degree College Students take up extension work projects related to social issues, for which they are awarded 10 additional marks in their final examinations on successful completion of 120/240 hours of work, and the submission of the project report in time.

Aim: The Third Dimension of Extension is aimed at promoting a meaningful and sustained rapport between the Universities and the Community i.e., to have educational programs for a Social Change.

Purpose of DLLE:

Extension Education: Promotes mutual sharing of resources between the University and the community, aimed at social welfare and sensitizing students to socio-cultural realities.

Community Impact: Works to improve the quality of life for less privileged sections of society, extending educational programs focused on “reach to unreached.”
New Initiatives:  Introducing new activities in response to demands from the teaching fraternity, students, and the community.
Student Participation: Students earn Ten Additional Marks upon completing 120 hours of work on Extension Projects, as per University Ordinance 229.A

 Extension work Projects:

        I) Vocational Career-Oriented Projects

1. Career Project [CP] 
2. Industry Orientation Project [IOP] 
3. Anna Poorna Yojana [APY] 
4. Skill Development (SD)
5.   II) Community-Oriented Projects
6. Population Education Club (PEC)
7. Survey Research
8. Education for All (EFA- NIOS, IDOL)
9. Environmental Education
10. Civic Sense (CS)
11. Consumer Guidance

Students who enroll for this extension work projects perform various activities for social awareness based on various issues/problem in the society such as Save Food, Save Water, Save the Girl Child, Pollution Control, HIV-Aids, Global warming, Tree Plantation, Child Labour, Dowry deaths, Waste management and many more. Students can create awareness about these social problems through various activities like Rally, Street Play, Poster Making, Survey, Elocutions etc.

DLLE at SLRTCE

During the 2022-23 academic year, the Department of Lifelong Learning and Extension (DLLE) introduced its programs at our college. 

The Summary of enrollment and benefitted students is as follows;

Objectives:

The objectives of Lifelong Learning and Extension are outlined below for making education relevant to real life situations:

• To act as a focal agency in the University system for all Lifelong Learning programmes and to provide academic and technical resource support for community-based activities in collaboration with universities departments and colleges.
• To serve as an intellectual intervention in the community’s living problems which need to be overcome through an educational process.
• To develop among students a sense of responsibility towards society.
• To design programs that will help students to face life and its challenges and thus create an ambience for a learning society.
• To deepen the teachers’ and students’ knowledge through a wider exposure to real life situations through a variety of programs.
• To prepare students for a greater social commitment.
• To enhance student employability skills
• To cater to the needs of the unreached for promoting knowledge-based society.
• To network with Governmental and Non-governmental agencies, international organizations as well as industries.

EXTENSION TEACHERS AND FIELD COORDINATOR :

• Dr. Dhiraj R Singh (Extension Teacher)
• Dr. Lahu Teli (Extension Teacher)
• Mr. Amarnath D Landge (Field Coordinator)
• Mrs. Alka Shrivastava (Extension Teacher)