1319 learners of IGNOU Shillong Center conferred with Diploma/Degree

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaApril 5, 2023

Altogether 1319 learners of IGNOU Shillong Regional Centre were conferred Degrees/ Diplomas/ certificates on the University’s 36th Convocation held on Monday.

The Convocation was part of the main function conducted at IGNOU Headquarters at New Delhi and also simultaneously in all 33 Regional Centers across the country.

Established in April 1988, the IGNOU Regional Centre Shillong at present has 21 Learner Support Services covering 10 districts of Meghalaya.

Delivering the Convocation Address, Meghalaya Governor Phagu Chauhan lauded the Indira Gandhi National Open University for taking the national responsibility of promoting and setting benchmarks for Open and Distance Learning (ODL) and online education (OL) systems in India and world.

Chauhan said IGNOU, which is known to be the World’s largest open University with above 3 million enrolments of students in different IGNOU programmes, has made significant contributions to democratizing Higher Education in the country by providing access to a large number of aspirants through the Open & Distance mode and through online mode, he added.