M S Swaminathan Research Foundation

The M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) – a non-profit research organization,
has been setting up and managing the Village Resource Centres (VRCs) and Village
Knowledge Centres (VKCs) since 1992, These VRCs and VKCs mainly provides needbased
locale-specific, demand-driven information content (both dynamic and static) based
on the collection of several secondary data and a well-planned need assessment. The
centres also periodically organise appropriate training and awareness programmes and
establish linkages with several leading institutions/organisations for translating the content
into field-based applications