Family Resource Management

The Department of Family Resource Management, under the Faculty of Community Science started its operations in the year, 1973, guided by the leading minds in the resource management, with a plan to develop its identity as a teaching and research department in the Faculty of highest international quality. This department deals with the “Art and Science of Living” and Consumer related issues. Efforts in this area provide an understanding of how individuals and families obtain and utilize resources of time, money, and human capital, to achieve higher standard of living and overall quality of life.Resource Management and Consumer Science is an evolving field in Community Science that deals with various aspects of management of resources, with special emphasis on the relationship of human beings (human resource), interior space (space as a material resource) and the activities that are carried out in the space. The course is both relevant and significant due to the changing needs of human beings with their environment.It includes the major fields like ergonomics/Human factor Engineering, interior design, consumer economics and management of resources to prepare students to be effective managers, Occupational analyst, Interior designer and Consumer counsellor. Resource Management and Consumer Science department is designed to enable the students to develop professional competence for jobs in the private, public sector and to take up entrepreneurial ventures.
As an added dimension, the department has introduced Post Graduate Programme in the year 1992 and Ph. D Programme in 2010. The Dept. has undertaken different externally funded projects in the domain fields and also undertakes extension activities for capacity building and entrepreneurship development.