New Delhi, Feb 22 : Aiming to invoke youth through teachings of Bapu, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is coming up with Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education and Development to train professionals in social service.
The institute, to be set up in collaboration with Nagaland Gandhi Ashram (NGA) in Chuchuyimlang, Nagaland, will offer undergraduate and postgraduate programs in social work, university Vice Chancellor V N Rajasekharan Pillai today said.
The proposed campus will consist of various schools of Social Work, Agricultural Development, Teacher's Training, Community College, Cultural Resource and Training Centre-Naga Arts and Crafts and Study Centre with Gandhi Museum.
The postgraduate programme, that envisages an interdisciplinary approach to education and development, is expected to be launched in July 2010 with an intake of around 25 students in the first year, an IGNOU spokesperson told UNI.
He informed that it would include ICT enabled learning and full-fledged library support and regular faculty under Educational Development of the North East (EDNERU). Virtual classrooms will also be used to broadcast lectures from Delhi, directly to students at the MGIDE campus.
He noted that earlier this week a two-day expert meet was also held to finalize the curriculum for the new programs attended by various scholars from both Delhi and northeast. The campus, coming up on a 20 acre land donated by the Village Council of Chuchuyimlang, is the brainchild of noted Gandhian and Founder of Nagaland Gandhi Ashram Natwar Thakkar.
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