New Delhi: Good news for the students of remote areas, like Nagaland in North East! Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is likely to open a college in a remote Nagaland village to impart life skills to people and train villagers in the region as teachers.
According to the University spokesman, IGNOU has started work for setting up a centre of community education and skills training in the Chuchuiymlang village of Mokokchung district, Nagaland, under the Community College Scheme. Also, the required land for the proposed centre, envisioned as an IGNOU Center of Excellence, has been allotted to the university free of cost by the villagers.
As per sources, the IGNOU Center of Excellence would begin with social work programmes, such as Master in Social Work (MSW), to ensure steady grooming of social workers for Indian communities. Other vocational education and training programmes would be started gradually.
Further, the University spokesman added that such education would empower people and ensure better livelihood. The Center would start academic programmes in the areas of social work, agricultural extension and development work, vocational training, teachers' training, preservation of indigenous arts and crafts, tribal studies and other north-eastern affairs.
