IGNOU: “Annual Coordinator Meeting Held on 07th February, 2020”.

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Regional Centre, Chandigarh organized Annual Coordinator Meeting with the Coordinator and Programme In charge of IGNOU Study Centre in Chandigarh held on 07^th February, 2019. All the Coordinators and Programme Incharges participated in the meeting from Chandigarh, Panchkula, Ambala, Patiala, Ropar and Morni Hills.

The meeting presided over by Dr. M. Sanmugam, Director, Regional Service Division, IGNOU, Hqrs. New Delhi. While addressing the coordinators Dr. Sanmugam shared that IGNOU is going to launch its programme through online mode. The Ministry of MHRD, Govt. of India has given its permission for IGNOU to conduct the programme through online. He also shared that IGNOU has been exempted from the UGC Regulation 2017. IGNOU would ensure high standard of its programme delivery. Dr. Sanmugam informed that the total enrolment of distance education from IGNOU is 12% and every year IGNOU enroll more than 11 lakh students through distance mode of learning in various programme. He also instructed the coordinators to make maximum use of new technology to reach out to the learners.

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Dr. Anil K. Dimri, Regional Director welcome the Coordinators and Programme Incharges and presented the annual report of Regional Centre, Chandigarh and also highlighted the achievement of Regional Centre, Chandigarh. In his report he shared that the enrolment of the Regional Centre, Chandigarh has increased by 30% during last year and has gone up to 17790 learners. He also shared with the support of coordinators the publicity and the promotion activities adopted by Regional Centre reached to the unreached. Dr. Savita Panwar (A. R. D.) shared the monitoring mechanism system with the coordinator and requested for submission of Monthly Monitoring Report every month to Regional Centre for analysis of Student Support Services. Dr. Nurul Hasan (A.R.D.) highlighted the issues pertaining to assignments and promotion and publicity activities of IGNOU. Mr. Tejpal Singhal (E. D. P.) explained the coordinator about how to fill the online Academic Counsellor form of the University. The meeting was also supported by all the staff members of the Regional Centre. All the coordinators were given 10 minutes to present their views and feedback. At the end of the Meeting a vote of thanks was given by Dr. Savita Panwar (A. R. D.) for the cooperation received by Regional Centre from its Study Centre and also requested for their full support in the future endeavors of the University to provide quality and need based education to the society. Following Coordinators were present in the meeting: Mr. J. J. Singh, Dr. Amitabh Dwivedi, Dr. Kiron Angra, Dr. Vandan Awasthi, Dr. Anuradah Agnihotri, Mr. Harpreet Singh, Mr. Pawan Kumar, Mr. Parveen Kumar etc.