Vinai Kumar Saxena, the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, was present as the chief guest of the event.
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) today (November 19) celebrated its 38th foundation day with Vinai Kumar Saxena, the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, present as the chief guest of the event.
“IGNOU stands tall, as a beacon of knowledge and academic excellence in the field of inclusive education and distance learning, delivering a flexible, learner-centric, cost-effective and high-quality education,” he said, as per a post by IGNOU on ‘X’ (earlier known as Twitter).
Speaking at the event, the LG of Delhi said that education should focus on student upskilling and vocational education, to build a high-quality future workforce. Equal emphasis needs to be given to the curricular and the extra-curricular, for holistic student development.
He urged IGNOU to effectively utilize the developments in emerging areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, and Virtual Reality to attain global standards and thereby, produce globally competent, yet locally relevant graduates.