VKC stands for Village Knowledge Centres, which serve as information dissemination centres providing instant access to farmers to the latest information and knowledge available in the field of agriculture.

VKCs aim at impacting rural livelihoods to build resourceful and progressive villages. VKCs work towards improving agriculture, imparting knowledge on new developments and improved methods of cultivation, disseminating weather data and agro-climatic conditions, providing the latest information on prices of agricultural produce to farmers, and financial inclusion.

The first VKC of the bank was set up in May 2005.

Presently, the bank has more than 211 VKCs across the country.

The mission of VKC is to improve agriculture, impart knowledge on new developments and improved methods of cultivation, disseminate weather data and agro-climatic conditions, provide the latest information on prices of agriculture produce to farmers, impart knowledge on diversification of agriculture and developing farm-based enterprises, form self-help groups and farmers' clubs, disseminate information about various government-sponsored schemes, and coordinate with various government departments for developmental activities.

The goal of VKC is to improve agriculture, impart knowledge on new developments and improved methods of cultivation, disseminate weather data and agro-climatic conditions, provide the latest information on prices of agriculture produce to farmers, impart knowledge on diversification of agriculture and developing at least 2 farm-based enterprises in a village per year, bring in positive change in the livelihood of at least 300 farmers in a year in the command area of a VKC by increased income levels and higher standards of living, form at least 5 self-help groups per village in the command area of VKC, provide constant support to the SHGs to ensure that at least 75% sustain beyond 6 months to become eligible for bank linkage, enable the groups to graduate economically for taking up income-generating activities and increasing their credit absorption capacity, form at least 1-2 farmers' clubs per village in the command area of VKC, create awareness in the command area villages about various government-sponsored schemes to take benefit of subsidy/grants, coordinate with government departments to ensure the flow of funds to the villages allocated under various developmental schemes, ensure that every family in the command area villages has at least one active bank account, provide financial counselling and inform about various schemes/products of the bank to at least 5 people in a day, and special attention and counselling for vulnerable people who are heavily indebted to informal sources of finance and defaulters to banks/FIs to come out of the debt trap.

The VKC In-charge should be informed about all the information provided in the VKC Portal and how to access the same, impart knowledge on new developments and improved methods of cultivation/technologies in the field of agriculture, disseminate weather data and agro-climatic conditions, provide the latest information on prices of agriculture produce to farmers, impart knowledge on diversification of agriculture and developing at least 2 farm-based enterprises in a village per year, bring in positive change in the livelihood of at least 300 farmers in a year in the command area of a VKC by increased income levels and higher standards of living, form at least 5 self-help groups per village in the command area of VKC, provide constant support to the SHGs to ensure that at least 75% sustain beyond 6 months to become eligible for bank linkage, enable the groups to graduate economically for taking up income-generating activities.