Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 24: Indira Gandhi National Open University, Regional Centre Jammu organized one-day annual meeting of Coordinators and Programme Incharges of all the Learner Support Centres under Jammu Region, here today at Jammu University.
The Coordinators and Programme Incharges from various Learner Support Centres, including Doda, Padder, Bhalessa, Rajouri, Poonch, Kharta (Kishenpur), Katra, Patnitop, Kathua, Samba, Udhampur, Gool, Mahore, Ramban, etc, participated in the meeting.
Regional Director I/C, Vikram Singh, informed on the occasion that the Regional Centre Jammu has achieved the benchmark of registering 50,000 students in the current financial year 2017-18. He elaborated about the number of initiatives that the University has taken for the benefit and welfare of students
The Coordinators and Programme Incharges had an interactive session with the Regional Centre functionaries in which several issues related to the functioning of Learner Support Centres was discussed. Besides this, various issues pertaining to Student Support Services were discussed and necessary strategies were planned on the spot to improve the quality of support services being provided to the learners at the Study Centre level.
Some of the Coordinators projected their views and experiences with the help of power point presentations. These included Prof. P K Rao, Coordinator SC 1206, Govt. Degree College, Kathua, Prof P L Suri, Coordinator SC 12119, Bhartiya College of Education, Udhampur, Prof Ved Kumar, Assistant Coordinator SC 1250, Govt Degree College (Boys), Udhampur.
Dr Sandeep Gupta, Assistant Regional Director, explained about various activities pertaining to student support services, admissions, examinations, empanelment of Academic Counsellors, etc.
Dr Asha Upadhiay, Assistant Regional Director, explained about the activities pertaining to the conduct of Counselling, Tutor Mark Assignments, monitoring of support services, etc.
Tejinder Pal Singh, Assistant Registrar, alongwith his team comprising of Dara Singh, Section Officer, Lakhbir Singh, Sweety Gupta and Naveen Dutta, discussed about remuneration, renewal of part-time staff at LSCs, discrepancies in submission of bills, revision of payment norms and other issues related to accounts and finance in an interactive session.
Rakesh Koul from the Regional Centre informed about various measures being taken to reduce the grievances related to despatch and distribution of study material to students directly from the New Delhi Headquarters.
Rupesh Pandita from the Regional Centre demonstrated about online services and Regional Centre website.
S Tejinder Pal Singh presented vote of thanks.
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