The Hindu : KSOU Dean on expert panel

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Friday, Jun 20, 2003

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Southern States - Karnataka-Bangalore

KSOU Dean on expert panel

By Our Special Correspondent

Chambi Puranik

BANGALORE JUNE 19. The Chairman, Distance Education Council (DEC-IGNOU) of India, has appointed Chambi Puranik, Dean (Academic), KSOU, as member of the expert committee to visit the State open universities in the country and evaluate the impact of grants on development of infrastructure and promotion of distance education.

Dr. Puranik has been nominated on the basis of his expertise and contribution to open and distance education. He will make suggestions on extending financial support to open universities and correspondence course institutions under various schemes. Dr. Puranik has contributed to the innovative and multimedia projects for producing quality study material, organising seminars, workshops (national and international) in open and distance learning, and preparation of audio and video CDs in Kannada, English, and other languages at the KSOU.

He will soon visit Rajarishi Tandon Open University and Nalanda Open University as part of the first phase of the review and evaluation of the utilisation of development grants, unassigned grants, research grants, travel grants, and support for organising conference/seminars of open universities.

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