MKCL’s Community Development Initiatives
MKCL runs several community development programs with a view to bridge the digital divide or knowledge divide and propagate the culture conducive to nurturance of knowledge society among the masses. Programs in this category are as follows

• Talent Nurturance Program

• Life Long Learning (L3) Communities Development Program

• Rurban (Rural + Urban) Eco-friendly Habitat Development Program

• Watershed Development Program
   

Initiatives in brief
Nurturance of Excellence and Talent (NET) and Open Education Resources (OER) Repositories for nurturance of talent of school children to develop their thinking skills, analytical skills, synthesizing abilities, problem solving skills, and cultivating insights and competitiveness among them to succeed in Junior International Science and Mathematics Olympiads.

Children Science Exploratories for developing spirit of enquiry and discovery among the school children with the help of real as well as virtual laboratories and smart learning devices.

Hobby Homes for developing Multiple Intelligences of the children through large number of hobby-like activities and interactivities to be performed by the children upto the attainment of 14 years of age which present numerous opportunities to them to regularly and effectively use their various latent intelligences such as verbal/linguistic intelligence, mathematical/logical intelligence, musical intelligence, kinesthetic/bodily intelligence, naturalistic intelligence, spatial/navigational intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, interpersonal intelligence.

Life-long Learning eCommunities among farmers, community health workers, and teachers for bridging the digital divide and resultant knowledge divide threatening the extinction of rural communities due to severe challenges in the areas of food, health and education.

Rurban (Rural+Urban) Eco-friendly Habitat Development for building an alternative sustainable life-style model for economically and environmentally challenged communities through knowledge-based, eco-friendly and harmonious synthesis of desirable features of urban and rural habitats.

Watershed Development Model for developing knowledge-based low-cost and high-quality designs of water security for sustainable livelihood for the communities in drought prone areas.