Indira Gandhi National Open University

The Indira Gandhi Civic Accessible University (Hindi: इंदिरा गाँधी राष्ट्रीय मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय), accepted as IGNOU, is a ambit acquirements civic university amid in IGNOU road, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi, India. Named afterwards above Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi, the university was accustomed in 1985 with a account of ₹20 billion (20 billion Indian rupees), if the Assembly of India anesthetized the Indira Gandhi Civic Accessible University Act, 1985 (IGNOU Act 1985). IGNOU is run by the axial government of India.
IGNOU, the better university in the apple with over 4 actor students, was founded to admit apprenticeship by agency of ambit and accessible education, accommodate college apprenticeship opportunities decidedly to the disadvantaged segments of society, encourage, alike and set standards for ambit and accessible apprenticeship in India and strengthen the animal assets of India through education. Apart from teaching and research, addendum and training anatomy the mainstay of its bookish activities. It aswell acts as a civic ability centre, and serves to advance and advance standards of ambit apprenticeship in India. IGNOU hosts the Secretariats of the SAARC Consortium on Accessible and Ambit Acquirements (SACODiL) and the Global Mega Universities Network (GMUNET) initially accurate by UNESCO.
IGNOU has started a decentralisation action by ambience up 5 zones, viz, north, south, east, west and arctic east. The aboriginal of the bounded headquarters, accouterment to four southern states, Pondicherry, Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep, is getting set up in the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala.[citation needed]. The Ministry of HRD has entrusted the albatross of developing Abstract Policy on Accessible and Ambit Acquirements and Online Courses to IGNOU.

History

In 1970 the Ministry of apprenticeship and Social Welfare in accord with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, the UGC and the Indian Civic Commission for cooperation with UNESCO, organised a academy on 'Open University'. The academy recommended the enactment of an accessible university in India on an beginning basis. The government of India appointed an eight-member alive accumulation on accessible university in 1974. The arch role was accustomed to G. Parthasarathi, the again Vice-Chancellor of the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
The alive accumulation recommended establishing an accessible university by an act of assembly as aboriginal as possible. The university should accept administration over the absolute country so that, if it is absolutely developed, any apprentice even in the far-off bend of the country can accept acceptance to its apprenticeship and degrees (Working Accumulation Report, 1974).
The alive accumulation appropriate several measures to be followed in advisory and administration processes of the accessible university which include: acceptance procedure, age relaxation, alertness of account materials, ambience up of amount accumulation advisers in altered fields, ambience up of abstraction centres, car of curricular programmes, reside acquaintance with teachers, and so on. On the base of the recommendations of the alive group, the Union Government able a abstract bill for the enactment of a Civic Accessible University, but due to some affidavit the advance was delayed.