Distance education mess
Recently Professor NR Madhava Menon, the founding Vice-Chancellor (VC) of my alma mater, the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata, and one of the founders of the countrywide regulation university (NLU) assignment, exceeded away.Few consider that Professor Menon also became the author of current rules governing open and distance learning (ODL) in India. Tragically, this legacy is being tarnished at NUJS, which has been a chronic violator of ODL policies of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and University Grants Commission (UGC) given 2008.The regulatory frameworkODL in India acquired impetus with the established order of IGNOU in 1985.For almost three years after that, IGNOU had the twin role of functioning as an Open University and ...
















