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She also virtually inaugurated the IGNOU Regional Centre and Skill Centre at Rairangpur, Odisha, on the occasion.
She also virtually inaugurated the IGNOU Regional Centre and Skill Centre at Rairangpur, Odisha, on the occasion.
The MoU was signed at Kaushal Bhawan, New Delhi, on 9 December in the presence of Prof. Uma Kanjilal, Vice Chancellor, IGNOU; Debashree Mukherjee, Secretary, MSDE; and other senior officials of both institutions.
The State’s Higher Education Department and the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Monday to offer a range of undergraduate, postgraduate, diploma and certificate programmes in the Odia language, an official said on Tuesday.
During the two-day National Conference, apart from the inaugural, concluding and special sessions, seven paper presentation sessions were also organized.
The conference theme, "Indian Knowledge System, History Writing, and History’s Philosophy," is tailored to align with the special context of the National Education Policy of 2020.
Dr. Srivastava was conferred upon the award by the Ambassador of France in India, M Thierry Mathou.
Prof MS Senam Raju, Director of School of Management Studies, expressed his satisfaction with the restructuring of the MoU and explained that the need arises for this MOU in the light of NEP 2020 and the curriculum and credit framework of the UGC.
The Degree Programme has an equal weightage of the knowledge and skill components, thus meeting the mandate of NEP-2020 for integrating higher education with skill education.
Speaking at the 36th convocation of the university, she expressed happiness that many employed/self-employed persons are getting an education from IGNOU for skill upgradation.
These diploma courses will be of a duration of one year. Any graduate with 50 per cent marks for the general category and 45 per cent for the reserved category can enroll in any of these MBA programmes without appearing for any entrance test.
