The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), set up by an Act of Parliament in 1985, has ceaselessly endeavored to construct a comprehensive information society through comprehensive instruction. It has attempted to expand the Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) by offering great instructing through the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) mode.
The University started by offering two scholastic projects in 1987, i.e., Diploma in Management and Diploma in Distance Education, with a quality of 4,528 understudies.
Today, it serves the instructive yearnings of more than 3 million understudies in India and different nations through 21 Schools of Studies and a system of 67 local focuses, around 2,667 student bolster focuses and 29 abroad accomplice organizations. The University offers around 228 endorsement, certificate, qualification and doctoral projects, with a quality of almost 810 employees and 574 scholarly staff at the base camp and territorial focuses and around 33,212 scholastic instructors from ordinary foundations of higher learning, proficient associations, and industry among others.