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    The Supreme Court ruled that the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Distance Education Council (DEC) have no authority over universities offering distance education programs. The court sided with Punjab Technical University (PTU) in allowing it to operate study centers outside of Punjab. The court said that distance education should be accessible across regions and saw no valid reason for IGNOU or DEC to restrict other universities from offering such courses.

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    The Supreme Court ruled that the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Distance Education Council (DEC) have no authority over universities offering distance education programs. The court sided with Punjab Technical University (PTU) in allowing it to operate study centers outside of Punjab. The court said that distance education should be accessible across regions and saw no valid reason for IGNOU or DEC to restrict other universities from offering such courses.

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    The Supreme Court ruled that the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Distance Education Council (DEC) have no authority over universities offering distance education programs. The court sided with Punjab Technical University (PTU) in allowing it to operate study centers outside of Punjab. The court said that distance education should be accessible across regions and saw no valid reason for IGNOU or DEC to restrict other universities from offering such courses.

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    The Supreme Court (SC) in a recent order has stated that the Indira Gandhi National

    Open University (IGNOU) and Distance Education Council (DEC) have no authority
    over any university offering programmes through distance mode.

    The apex court said this while hearing a Special Leave Petition (SLP) by IGNOU and
    DEC against the Himachal High Court ruling in March 2006, in reference to Punjab
    Technical University (PTU)’s study centres outside Punjab. The SC ruled in favour of
    PTU.

    According to Vikas Chopra, counsel for PTU, Jalandhar, IGNOU sought relief against the
    high court order claiming that PTU was not authorised to run distance education courses
    outside the state of Punjab and all universities including PTU come under the purview of
    IGNOU as far as matters con¬nected with distance education are concerned.

    The apex court in its ruling said that distance education has to run at a distance and it was
    not correct on the part of IGNOU to stop any university from offering such courses since
    it is helping a large number of students. The court also questioned that in case a student in
    Delhi wanted to take admission in a course offered by PTU, how can any other university
    such as IGNOU or council like DEC stop the student from pursuing the course? It
    highlighted the fact that if foreign universities can offer their courses in India then why
    not PTU.

    Welcoming the SC’s decision, S H Ansari, chairman, department of distance learning,


    Jamia Hamdard, said: As of now DEC legally has no constitutional right to control
    distance education. But we would like DEC to be an independent body like the Medical
    Council of India and I believe in the time to come DEC will be empowered to control
    distance education directly. As far as IGNOU is concerned, it is also an university and
    can¬not have any authority over other universities. The controlling body for any
    university is the University Grants Commission (UGC).

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