Under the guidelines of the University Grants Commission the Centre for Women's Studies was established in the year 1987 to provide gender awareness and for incorporating gender perspectives to all faculties in the University.  Since its inception the Centre has taken up various research and extension programmes in the area of gender issues.  The Centre was able to achieve its objectives by organizing a number of training programmes and by networking with NGO's working with women groups and also by taking up various research projects such as Giri Child and Family, Women Corporations, Self-Employed women in unorganized sector, etc.  The Centre was also responsible for the inclusion of women's component at the post graduate and under graduate level in disciplines such as social work and sociology.  The IV National Conference on Women's Studies was successfully organized by the Centre in the year 1992 the Centre has taken up a number of activities pertaining to women at different levels i.e., teaching, awareness building and research.  The Centre could establish itself at Community level by closely working with various Mahila Organizations and Mahila Mandals situated in various slum communities in and around Visakhapatnam.  Because the Centre is realizing to various occasions of social significance may it be AIDS prevention, anti-arrack movement or implementation of prohibition, cutting across the class structure, it has established its credibility among various women groups and they look towards the Centre for consultancy and intervention whenever needed.  Presently the Centre is placed in Phase I by the UGC.

     The Centre is bringing out a Newsletter twice a year from the year 1992.  The Centre also has a library exclusively catering to women's issues and presently the Center's library consists of about 200 text books, 100 reports and journals.  It is extensively used by the students and scholars working on issues related to both in the University and outside.