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Milestones

‘Talk to a Teacher’ facility introduced in the SAKSHAT site.
IGNOU offers Ph.D. in various disciplines viz Economics, Education, English, Hindi, Library & Information Science. History, Mathematics, Physics, Political Science, Public Administration, Sociology, Commerce, Management and Tourism Studies.
Eighteenth Convocation held. Hon'ble Justice K.G. Balakrishan, CJI delivers the Convocation address.
The Board of Management of IGNOU approves the institution of the Chair in Sustainable Development, with Prof. M.S. Swaminathan, the eminent agriculture scientist as the Honorary Chair.
A Touch Screen Kiosk for students of IGNOU inaugurated at the campus by Prof. Rajasekharan Pillai, Vice Chancellor.
A national seminar-cum-workhop on 'Convergence of Conventional and Distance Modes of Education’ held, with the national launch of 'Training of Academic Counsellors for the Open & Distance Learning (ODL) System’.
Dr. T. Ramasami, Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Science and Technology, delivers the 12th Prof. G.Ram Reddy Memorial Lecture.
Pranab Mukherjee, Hon'ble Minister, Ministry of External Affairs, Govt, of India inaugurates a Pan-African e-Network Pilot Project at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia.
IGNOU and Goethe Institut (Institute) collaborate to offer German Language Course through Distance Learning Mode.
IGNOU ranked 17 out of top 100 in the Indian Subcontinent Region in ‘Webometrics Ranking of World Universities’, a leading international website www.webometrics.info.
Inter-University Consortium, IGNOU and the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia, COL jointly organise a two-day International Workshop on Disability-Related Research: Cross Disability Concerns of the Developing Countries in Asia.
On World Disability Day, Sir John Daniel. President and Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Canada, and Prof. Asha S. Kanwar, Vice President, COL, announce that COL shall collaborate with IGNOU for disability-related research for conceiving and launching various schemes for the disabled people.
Prasar Bharati agrees to place two channels of Gyan Darshan viz GD-1 and GD-2 on Direct-To -Home (DTH) platform of DD Direct Plus.


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