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INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY |
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ABOUT UNIVERSITY PROFILE

Indira Gandhi National Open
University was established in 1985 to
democratise higher education. The aim was to
provide
cost-effective, quality
education to large sections of our population including those living in remote
and farflung areas. A mere
fifteen years
since its inception IGNOU has carved a niche for itself among the premier
educational institutions in the
country.The University has been a pioneer in Distance Education and the
recipient of the Centre of Excellence in Distance
Education award conferred by the
Commonwealth of Learning in 1993.
IGNOU has about 11,87,100
students with extremely varied profiles, spread throughout the length and
breadth of the country.
The University has an efficient and effective networking of 48 Regional
Centres (22 are IGNOU Regional Centres, 8 are
IGNOU North-East Regional Centres, 5 are Army Command Centres, 8 are IAF Command
Centres, 4 are Navy
Command Centres and
1 are Assam Rifles Command Centre), 5 Sub-Regional Centres and over 1114 Study
Centres,
all over
India.
As an Open University, IGNOU has come a long way since
1995, having crossed national
boundaries providing
higher education as
well as assisting other developing countries in this regard.
State-of-the-art telecommunication
systems have further helped in reaching out to the hitherto unreached sections
of the society.
Quality and equity have
been the guiding principles behind all our endeavours.
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