NCP MP demands restoring IGNOU courses

Updated on: Friday, May 04, 2012

For restoring 26 face-to-face programmes by the Indira Gandhi National Open University HRD Minister's intervention was sought in Rajya Sabha today,in the wake of over 10,000 BEd aspirants and other students being deprived admissions.

Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Tariq Anwar (NCP) said fate of 10,000 BEd aspirants and other students was left in the lurch due to closure of 26 face-to-face programmes and 129 institutions under IGNOU's convergence scheme.
  
He said the courses had gained popularity since their introduction in 2008 and at present around 2,000 students are enrolled in these undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
  
Anwar said even admissions under open and distance learning have taken a hit this year.
  
"While IGNOU admitted 1.19 lakh students in January 2012, during the same period last year the university admitted nearly two lakh students," he said urging the HRD Minister to look into the matter to save the future of students.
  
Anwar said IGNOU was passing through the worst phase now since its inception in 1985.

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