Regional Centre Profile

A major concern was shown to reach out to tribal area of Madhya Pradesh in July 2005. when 12 districts of Madhya Pradesh, all of them on the eastern part of the state and mostly dominated by the tribal population were brought under the administrative jurisdiction of a separate regional centre created at Jabalpur. The Regional centre is located within the premises of Rani Durgawati Vishwa Vidyalaya (RDVV) where IGNOU already had a study centre functioning for the past 20 years.

Regional Centre of IGNOU at Jabalpur looks after Jabalpur, Narsinghpur, Balaghat, Seoni, Chhindwara, Katni, Shahdol, Umariya, Anuppur, Sidhi, Dindori and Mandla. The territorial area under the jurisdiction of regional centre is about 26.90% of the total area of Madhya Pradesh and caters to 23.34% of the population of the state. Regional Centre has major challenge to practice the distance education in highly sparcely distributed population, poor transport network, low per capital income and extremely low penetration of technology in the region

Regional Centre has devised a number of innovative scheme like mobile study centres, collaborative efforts with NGOs, schools and tie-ups with governmental networks to enhance the reach of higher education in the area. The regional centre of IGNOU looks after a network of 29 learner support centres in the region and has presence in all the districts except Sidhi & Umaria.