New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will offer an online Post-Graduate Diploma Programme on Sustainability Science. The programme is being launched with an aim to cater to those students who are curious about the environment and the Earth.
The announcement regarding the launch of the programme was made on Friday i.e. on April 29, 2011 by an IGNOU official. Shailesh Nayak, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, has said that sustainability is anticipation or what is likely to happen, for example, with the monsoon, rainfall and winds.
According to IGNOU, those candidates who have pursued graduation from social and natural sciences streams, policy makers, administrators, scientists, educators and the general public are considered eligible apply for the programme. The programme has a minimum duration of one year and a maximum of four years.
IGNOU Vice Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai, said that with the launch, IGNOU has become one of the very few universities in the world and the first in the country to start sustainability science as a new discipline.
