Since 1992, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation has been pioneering the knowledge empowerment of resource poor, marginal
farming, fishing and landless rural families in India. Harnessing the modern computer and satellite based Information Communication and
Technology (ICT), the Village Resource and Knowledge Centres (VRC & VKC) set up by MSSRF using bottom up approach have been
providing locale and time specific, demand driven information to the rural communities. Notably it plays a significant role in being a bridge
between the research and rural communities' for facilitating the process of providing real time solutions to address the issues pertaining to
lives and livelihoods of the rural community in the emerging trend of changing scenario.