New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has extended the deadline for submission of filled-in applications for admission to academic programmes under the Common Prospectus to July 15 for the session commencing from July.

IGNOU official announced this recently.

Mr. K Laxman, officer on special duty (OSD) for students registration division (SRD) said, "The Common Prospectus contains details about admission to 129 programmes. The prospectuses of all other programmes are issued by the respective schools of studies. IGNOU has 21 of such schools."

There are 40 programmes for PhDs and MPhils. The extension of date for admission is to 129 programmes only, and not others. For all other programmes, except these 129 mentioned in the Common Prospectus, the last date will remain on June 30 as announced and extensively advertised earlier, Mr Laxman added.

Prospectuses for all programmes will be available from counters at Headquarters, IGNOU Regional Centres and Study Centres, spread across the country and abroad.

IGNOU at present is running 312 programmes for academic and professional capacity-building of the disadvantaged and willing learners. A good number of these programmes are run in collaboration with various industrial organisations under Private-Public Partnership (PPP) schemes and educational institutions, both domestic and international. These programmes have been developed on the principles of need-based education and empowerment of the disadvantaged.