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Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan connected Tuesday (April 7, 2026) participated successful the 39th Convocation of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), wherever helium said the university, which has implicit 14 lakh learners, including 56% women and 58% from agrarian and disadvantaged communities, was a pillar of “India’s unfastened and region learning ecosystem”.
Referring to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Vice President said that IGNOU remained resilient owed to its established distance-learning exemplary and congratulated the assemblage for efficaciously leveraging integer platforms specified arsenic SWAYAM and e-GyanKosh to guarantee uninterrupted learning and emergence arsenic a person successful technology-enabled education.
Asking the students not to fearfulness development, Mr. Radhakrishnan said, “There were apprehensions erstwhile computers were introduced successful the country, with fears that they would instrumentality distant jobs; however, they yet generated much employment and contributed to nationalist growth. Emerging tools specified arsenic artificial quality tin heighten learning experiences, amended pupil support, and alteration personalised education.”
He added that modern improvement indispensable spell manus successful manus with tradition, and ethical values should usher technological advancement.
Delhi Lieutenant Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu, who was contiguous connected the occasion, said IGNOU has genuinely transformed acquisition successful India by breaking barriers of distance, time, and circumstance, reaching millions of learners crossed the country. “Today’s situation demands much than conscionable a degree; it demands adaptability, skills, and a willingness to support learning. Your grade is not the extremity of education; it is conscionable the beginning,” Mr. Sandhu told students.
