38th Convocation of IGNOU Regional Centre Jammu to be held on Wednesday, 5th March, 2025

JAMMU: IGNOU Regional Centre Jammu will be celebrating the 38^th Convocation function of the University on 5^th March, 2025. This would be the 29^th Convocation ceremony at the Regional Centre ever since its establishment in the year 1998. The Regional Centre Jammu started its operations in the 1998 for the entire erstwhile State of J&K on the invitation of the then Government of J&K with around 1000 students and an offering of about 40 Programmes linked to one Learner Support Centre in the University of Jammu.

Today IGNOU is the largest Open and Distance Learning platform available to a huge number of masses in India and across the word as well. IGNOU is widely acknowledged as a leader in the ODL system offering a number of academic, vocational, professional and skill based job-oriented programmes through a wide network of Regional Centres which facilitate a huge network of Learner Support Centres across the country and abroad as well.

IGNOU has been working hard for the past 40 years to accomplish its mission of equality, inclusivity, quality, accessibility and affordability in higher education which is also the mandate for National Education Policy 2020. IGNOU offers a huge range of around 400 programmes at the Masters, Bachelors, Diploma and Certificate level through Open and Distance Learning mode. The University offers around 45 programmes through online mode as well.

To realize the goal of reaching 50% Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) by 2035 IGNOU has made concerted efforts to introduce academic programmes offered through ODL and Online modes. In light of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the University has implemented Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) in which the learners would have the freedom to select their desired courses providing curriculum’s interdisciplinary flexibility. Students in various fields such as sciences, computer sciences, psychology, library science, social work, sustainable development, counselling and family therapy, food and nutrition, anthropology, education, health sciences, nursing, information security, and more, are expected to actively participate in hands-on learning experiences to enhance their job prospects.

IGNOU has become the First Open University in the Country to have been accredited with the highest A++ Grade by NAAC. The programmes are offered in compliance to NEP 2020 Guidelines. Today IGNOU Regional Centre Jammu has marked its presence in almost every corner of the Jammu region with a network of 30 Learner Support Centres which include 4 Jail Centres exclusively for Jail inmates. IGNOU caters to the needs of the underprivileged and downtrodden masses of the far flung and remotest corners of the region.

After a wait of more than 26 years, Regional Centre Jammu has now got its own new campus at Rajinder Vihar, Phase-I, Banlatab, Jammu which was inaugurated on 7^th of February, 2024 by Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon’ble Union Minister of Education, virtually. Regional Centre Jammu has a huge databank of around 4000 empanelled Academic Counsellors, Evaluators, Examiners, and Resource Persons in different disciplines who are faculty members in the prestigious Institutions under the conventional higher education system.

The Jammu Regional Centre has consistently shown sustainable growth in enrollment over the years. Regional Centre Jammu has registered more than 75 percent learners from the rural far flung and tribal areas which clearly represents the reach and popularity of IGNOU in far flung remote and tribal areas of the region. From the year 2020 till 2024 in the eight admission cycles, RC Jammu has freshly enrolled and re-registered around 2 lakh 22 thousand learners in the region.

In the 38^th Convocation of the University on 5^th March, 2025, more than 3 lakh learners will be presented with the degree/diploma/certificate at IGNOU New Delhi Headquarters and 39 Regional Centres across the country. Under the Jammu region, as many as 11292 learners have been declared successful and eligible to receive Diplomas and Degree Certificates in the 38^th Convocation function at Jammu which includes 4988 learners of Master Degree programmes, 5852 learners of Bachelor Degree programmes, 316 learners of Diploma/Post Graduate Diploma programmes and 137 learners of Certificate/Post Graduate Certificate programmes. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon’ble Union Minister of Education will be the Chief Guest on this occasion at the New Delhi HQs. of IGNOU.

Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Science & Technology, Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievance will be the Guest of Honour and deliver Convocation address in the 38^th Convocation function of Regional Centre Jammu being organized in the Auditorium of Convention Centre, Near Circuit House, Canal Road, Jammu on 5^th March, 2025 at 10AM. As per the details provided by New Delhi HQ., 1421 qualified learners have submitted the requisite fee online out of which around 200 learners have consented to receive their respective Degree/Diploma certificates in person in the Convocation function at Regional Centre Jammu.

The participating students need to reach the venue by 9:00AM and register themselves at the registration counter well in time in order to avoid rush and chaos. The male students should wear White / Off white or cream coloured Bharatiya Paridhan (Indian Dress) preferably made of Handloom / Khadi and female students should wear White / Off white or cream coloured Bharatiya Paridhan (Indian Dress) Sari or Salwar Kurta or Salwar Kameej, etc. preferably made of Handloom / Khadi.

“This is the prestigious ceremony for the University as well as the Regional Centre and along with the awardees a number of Alumni and other dignitaries are expected to grace the occasion in Jammu this time around”, said Dr. Sandeep Gupta, Regional Director.