Section 7
University open to all classes, castes and creeds.
The Indira Gandhi National Open University Act, 1985
About this Act
An Act to establish and incorporate an open University at the national level for the introduction and promotion of the open university and distance education systems in the educational pattern of the country and for the co-ordination and determination of standards in such systems.
(1) The University shall be open to persons of
either sex and of whatever race, creed, caste or class, and it shall not be lawful for the University to adopt
or impose on any person any test whatsoever of religious belief or profession in order to entitle him to be
appointed as a teacher of the University or to hold any other office therein or admitted as a student in the
University, or to graduate thereat, or to enjoy or exercise any privilege thereof.
(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall be deemed to prevent the University from making any special provision for the appointment or admission of women or of persons belonging to the weaker sections of the society, and in particular, of persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes.
(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall be deemed to prevent the University from making any special provision for the appointment or admission of women or of persons belonging to the weaker sections of the society, and in particular, of persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes.