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Kiran Bedi advocates for Domestic Violence and Drug Abuse Treatment Programme

“There have been no police reforms for the last 60 years and there is a dearth of research on policing in the country,” said Dr. Kiran Bedi, while delivering the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Silver Jubilee Lecture in the university campus.
Dr. Bedi said judicial reforms are also least researched. Judicial reforms and [...]

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IGNOU gets 91 crore from Union Budget

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), one of the world’s largest open universities, will get Rs.91 crore from the union budget for the next fiscal.
IGNOU will get Rs.91 crore in the 2010-11 fiscal, Rs.9 crore more as compared to the last year.
IGNOU provides education to over 2.5 million students in India and abroad. [...]

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IGNOU launches new online computer courses for rural youth

The Indira Gandhi National Open University ( IGNOU) joined hands with technology firm Srei Sahaj e-village to make 100 million youths in rural India computer literate.
The courses were inaugurated by union Minister for Communication and Information Technology A. Raja at IGNOU.
These programmes will deliver international quality skill development vocational programmes at affordable costs to [...]

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Concessional train fares for IGNOU students

On-campus students of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will get concessional fares for train travel anywhere in the country, vice chancellor VN Rajasekharan Pillai announced on Wednesday.
“The railway board has agreed to give train travel concession with immediate effect to face-to-face programmes students of varsity and this will place them on par with [...]

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IGNOU to launch a certificate course in telecentre management

IGNOU announced that it will soon launch a certificate programme in telecentre management, to be made available in 10 Indian and 10 international languages.
Aimed at those who are already working in telecentres or interested in setting up one, the 10-module course will be first made available in English and Hindi and later introduced in [...]

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IGNOU to introduce a course in dialysis medicine

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Sunday announced that it is going to introduce a post doctoral certificate course in dialysis medicine from July.
A press release said that IGNOU signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Directorate General of Health Services to introduce the course. It will be offered through the School [...]

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