ABOUT US

Department of Distance Education was established in 1968 and has been a pioneer institute imparting education through the distance mode. It has been the second institute in the country  to  adopt the non-formal mode of imparting education. This was the first department in India to introduce a regional language as medium of instruction and examination. Presently, the department is managing 34 multi-faculty programmes. Student enrolment in the department has been as high as twelve to fifteen thousand in previous years. The department is proud of its students who have always performed exceptionally well in the University examinations, lending credence to the fact that the distance mode of learning is second to none