M S Swaminathan Research Foundation

Since 1992, M S Swaminathan Research
Fo u n d a t i o n (MSSRF) h a s b e e n
implementing the Village Resource Centres
(VRCs) and Village Knowledge Centres
(VKCs). In 2003 MSSRF established
the Jamashetji Tata National Virtual
Academy (NVA) to scale up the VKC
program. The NVA mission is “To promote
sustainable rural livelihoods through digital
empowerment based on a pro-poor and
pro-women orientation to technology choice
and dissemination, and human resource
development.” The NVA programme is
intended to bring together experts and
grassroots level communities in two-way
communication with the objective of
making knowledge accessible to every
home and hut.