IGNOU Signs MoU with CSC and NeGD for Digital Inclusion of Students
- As a part of the Digital India initiative, IGNOU plans to ease the application and examination mechanisms with online services for students.
- Common Services Centres will be set up all over the country which will act as a help desk for the same.
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with National E-Governance Division and Common Services Centres (CSC). The MoU has been signed under ‘Digital India’ initiative to facilitate digital inclusion of students. Through this MoU, IGNOU will enable students with online admission form submission, online form submission for examination, online re-registration and other such students specific services. Common Service Centre’s SPV Digital Sewa Portal will facilitate the online fee payment. All the online services offered by IGNOU will be facilitated and monitored by Common Services Centre.
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Interestingly, the collaboration will play a significant role in arranging around 2 lakh Common Service Centres to act as a single contact point for all the digital support services of Indira Gandhi National Open University. The initiative taken by IGNOU will be highly beneficial to the students living in rural areas. Similarly, the initiative will act as an alternative digital help desk to urban and semi-urban students.
Through this collaboration, IGNOU is also trying to digitize the study materials or learning resources. Students will be able to access these digital learning resources at Common Service Centres which will be acquainted with digital support services offered to students. IGNOU will also organise a series of workshops for Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs).
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As a part of the plan, the workshops will be initially organised in Lucknow followed by Guwahati, Raipur, Ahmedabad, Jammu and Patna in September.
IGNOU has also signed Memorandum of Understanding with National E-Governance Division (NeGD) for developing diploma and certificate programmes in e-governance as well.