Act Number: 50

Act Name: The Indira Gandhi National Open University Act, 1985

Year: 1985

Enactment Date: 1985-09-02

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Human Resource Development

Department: Department of Higher Education

Section 1: Short title and commencement.
    (1) This Act may be called the Indira Gandhi National Open University Act, 1985.
     (2) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
Notes:
1. 20th September, 1985, vide notification No. S.O. 678(E), dated 19th September, 1985, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii).
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