{"id":50520,"date":"2025-06-10T12:40:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/?p=50520"},"modified":"2025-06-10T12:40:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:40:50","slug":"higher-education-department-and-ignou-sign-mou-to-offer-courses-in-odia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2025\/06\/10\/higher-education-department-and-ignou-sign-mou-to-offer-courses-in-odia\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Education Department and IGNOU Sign MoU to Offer Courses in Odia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bhubaneswar ,10 \/6\/2025 ( Odisha Samachar \/ Rajat Mohapatra )-The Higher Education Department,Government of Odisha and the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to offer a range of undergraduate, postgraduate, diploma and certificate programmes in the Odia language.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50521 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MOU-1-300x190.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MOU-1-300x190.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MOU-1.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With this initiative, IGNOU now will provide courses such as Bachelor\u2019s degrees, Master\u2019s degrees, Post Graduate diplomas, diplomas, certificates, specialised programmes in Travel &amp; Tourism Management, BBA, MBA and other courses in Odia language in Odisha<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Higher Education Minister Shri Suryabanshi Suraj attended the signing ceremony as the Chief Guest. \u201cThrough this MoU, our students can now pursue higher education in Odia,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shri Suraj emphasised that offering programmes in mother tongue removes the barriers, &#8220;Language or medium should no longer be a hindrance in access to higher education.\u201d He added that this initiative reinforces the National Education Policy 2020\u2019s focus on providing education in regional languages. This MoU Signing is expected to foster students\u2019 creativity, reduce dropout rates and boost the state\u2019s gross enrolment ratio in higher education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50522 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MOU-2-300x181.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MOU-2-300x181.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MOU-2.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The students from various higher education institutions welcomed this initiative, noting that many students would greatly benefit from accessing higher education through the Odia medium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50523 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MOU-3-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MOU-3-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MOU-3-310x205.jpeg 310w, https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MOU-3.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shri Arvind Agarwal, Commissioner Cum Secretary, Higher Education Department, Special Secretary Shri Ramakant Nayak, IGNOU Vice-Chancellor Professor Uma Kanjilal and Registrar Dr. Alok Chaubey were present at the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhubaneswar ,10 \/6\/2025 ( Odisha Samachar \/ Rajat Mohapatra )-The Higher Education Department,Government of Odisha and the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to offer a range of undergraduate, postgraduate, diploma and certificate programmes in the Odia language. With this initiative, IGNOU now will provide courses such &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50524,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50520\/revisions\/50524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}