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 6: Jurisdiction.
    The University shall in the exercise of its powers have jurisdiction over the whole of India 1 [and to the Study Centres outside India].
Notes:
1. Added by Act 32 of 1997, s. 3, for "whole of India" (w.e.f. 29-8-1997).
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