Objectives

Roopkala Kendro is committed to provide academic programmes based on digital technology in the disciplines of Development Communication, Direction, Motion Picture Photography, Editing, Sound Design and Animation Creation and Direction so that meaningful discourses are made and designed in the scopic regimes of modernity in the 21st century.

Roopkala Kendro also considers its responsibility to document primarily through audiovisual means, contemporary issues affecting the poor, vulnerable and marginalised sections.

Networking and building linkages with grass root agencies constitute a prime responsibility of the institution. Through the Roopkala Kendro - Training and Development Communication Project (Lok Siksha Sanchar), a satellite-based television channel established under technical guidance of the Indian Space Research Organisation in collaboration with the Department of Panchayats & Rural Development, Govt. of West Bengal the Kendro facilitates direct capacity building of social communications in priority areas using video and audio conferencing systems.