IGNOU Celebrates Foundation Day - Innovation Club to be Started

Updated on: Saturday, November 28, 2015

Central government's only open university, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), celebrated its 30th foundation day last week. On the occasion, it announced the start of its latest initiative -- The Innovation Club (IC). The IC is basically an incubation centre for ideas to help provide education to people who would do not have easy access to it. The foundation day celebrations of IGNOU were conducted across all regional centres in the country where dignitaries were invited to share their views on 'Higher education and changing scenario.'
At the Nagpur regional centre, senior academicians gathered to exchange ideas on how we can ensure accessability of education to all and how it can transform the individual. Haribhau Kedar, former vice chancellor of Nagpur University, said, "Higher education should bring transformation in the society. It should bring change in one's thinking as well." The senior academician also said there were no boundaries in ancient times and we were receiving good things from all around.

"Our system enriched itself by absorbing those values. Later, demarcation and division started. People have started expecting that the government has to do everything without any contribution," he said. Kedar said this attitude was initiated during British rule. "The purpose of higher education is to provoke a person to think for change in oneself. Higher education should also inculcate the Indian value of Vasudhaika Kutumbakam that means every individual should think he or she is related to every other individual and every part of the nature," he said.

P Sivaswaroop, regional director of IGNOU (Nagpur), said in his welcome address that IGNOU is continuing the ideals laid in its foundation principles. "The university is striving to build a knowledge society through inclusive education. Nagpur Regional Centre is focusing more on reaching the backward sections of the society. It is organizing awareness meetings at the village level and at the residential areas of deprived sections of the society."

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