EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Indira Gandhi National Open University or IGNOU was establisehd on 20 September 1985. It was established to make higher education available to every person in the country.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) was established in September 1985 as one part of an overall plan for restructuring the system of higher edu-cation, and its first students were enrolled in 1987.

Detailed explanation-4: -Parthasarathi, the then Vice-Chancellor of the Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Detailed explanation-5: -Established in 1982, the Andhra Pradesh Open University (APOU), now called Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University (Dr. BRAOU), was the first full-fledged open university to be set up in India.