With a Tuesday through Sunday and an 08.00 am to 04.00 pm work culture the students have six one hour lectures with a break of 30 minutes after three hours. From 02.30 to 04.00 they work in the library, with the teacher guides or on their projects. An important value promoted at CLHRD is hard work modelled by both teaching and administrative staff. The summer training programmes, the social service activities and the study projects are all associated with an understanding of the value of hard work.

The builders of the concept of BHRD were sure that students can be given professional training for competence only when the number is very small. The college applied for permission for only 25 students to be admitted. This degree course being an intensive training and development programme, each student needs special attention for developing him or her to a resource developer. Our admissions have been restricted to 10-15 right from the first year.

The faculty at CLHRD is not just post-graduates who only teach the students. They are practitioners of human resource development. Each member of the faculty has to conduct training programmes in different institutions, companies and organisations. They are also involved in marketing intellectual property and hence are able to guide the students into marketing intellectual property and resource development designs. There is a growth process in the lecturers when they interact with students and lecturers of different institutions.

Every lecturer at CLHRD has to take the exact number of lecture hours recommended by the Board of Studies of the University. At CLHRD the faculty is not looking at the total number of working days, but the total number of lecture hours.

In order to develop the resource development skill of each student, CLHRD offers a thirty days’ Summer Apprenticeship programme for our first and second degree students. This summer apprenticeship programme is conducted under the guidance of practising resource persons. We also provide opportunities for our final year students to be practitioners of human resource development during their weekend holidays.

In the year 2001 CLHRD was accepted as the consultant for selection processes for the World Bank aided Karnataka Jala Samvardhana Yojane Sangha of the Irrigation department. In 2003, CLHRD is asked to be the consultant and training centre for a Total Quality Management Programme involving all the colleges under the Commissionerate of Collegiate Education, Government of Karnataka.

Each student votes for all other students of the class. One girl and one boy who get the highest votes are elected to the Students’ Cabinet. Six ministers have independent charges and each of them will get a term of 30-40 days to be the Chief Minister by rotation. Thus students get a chance to practise guided democracy.

Programme Extension Centres
CLHRD has many a Programme Extension Centres in different institutions across the country. It is more than six thousand students in all these Programme Extension Centres. The college has already offered learning and developmental interventions to more than one lakh people.

The college has appointed a practising lawyer as Students’ Grievances Redressal Commission who visits the college on all second Saturdays of every month to listen to the complaints of students. Perhaps ours is the only college to have such a mechanism to attend to the grievances of students.