New Delhi, Feb 24 (Inditop.com) On-campus students of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will get concessional fares for train travel anywhere in the country, Vice Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai announced Wednesday.
“The railway board has agreed to give train travel concession with immediate effect to face-to-face programmes students of varsity and this will place them on par with their counterparts of other central universities,” said Pillai.
Pillai said the move will positively impact enrolment in the next admission beginning July 2010.
“Efforts are also on to extend the bus pass facility by the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) to IGNOU on-campus students,” he added.
The university runs 21 face-to-face programmes under various schools in its Maidan Garhi campus in south Delhi.
