Established in the year 1985, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) was established by an Act of Parliament. Offering education to nearly1.5 million students across India, the institute has 58 regional, 7 sub- regional, 1400 study and 41 overseas centers. Moreover, Indira Gandhi National Open University is the topmost body which works for standardization of distance education. In addition to this, the Commonwealth of Learning has provided accrediation the institute as one of.......
As a tribute to the founder Dr. Sam Higginbottom, who through his sincere services, hard work and dedication has contributed greatly towards enhancing the agriculture production in our Country, a proposal was submitted to Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, New Delhi to re-christened Allahabad Agricultural Institute-Deemed University as Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences.
In view of the above, Ministry of Human Resource.......
The National Policy of Education (NPE) 1986, emphasized that distance education is an important medium for the development and promotion of higher education. In this context, for the expansion and promotion of distance education the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE), Government of India took an important decision that in the VIIIth year plan every state should establish a state open university following the distance education pattern. On this basis Madhya Pradesh Bhoj (Open).......