Extension Education and Communication Management is one of the important disciplines of Home Science. With the inception of the college in 1966, the courses of the discipline have been an integral part of the undergraduate programme. In 1970, the area emerged as a separate department of the college. The Post graduate programme in the discipline was introduced in the year 1980 and Ph.D. by thesis from 1991. The Ph.D. Programme by course work was initiated from January 2004. To facilitate students with better job opportunities just after B.Sc. programme, the department started professional package on Information Technology and Communication Management in the year 2006. So far 190 M.Sc. and 15 Ph.D. students have passed out from the department.
The broad purpose of the discipline is to train students in extension techniques and communication technologies to enable them to transfer Home Science information and technologies to rural families in such a way that people understand and adopt new ideas and improved technologies for better family living.
Mission
To train students in Information and Communication techniques and technologies for effective transfer of appropriate technologies to rural families for better family living and professional career of students.
In order to capture the multi-dimensional role complexities of rural women and to accord empirical data to development planners for endowing rural women with holistic entity towards improving the quality of life of rural household, the All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) in Home Science Extension was started in December,1996. This component aimed at generating national level database of Gender on various aspects of agriculture and allied fields, Identifying, Scientifically validating, documenting and disseminating indigenous knowledge, developing and field testing of technology kits, building livelihood security through income generating activities, designing training modules and improving quality of life of women through trainings.
