IGNOU Regional Center and IGNOU Code numbers

The Regional Centres (56),  IGNOU-Army Recognised Regional Centres (6), IGNOU-Navy Recognised Regional Centres (4) and IGNOU-Assam Rifles Recognised Regional Centre (1) are responsible for the promotion of the Open University system; development, maintenance and monitoring of IGNOU Study Centres and Student Support Services; and organisation of staff development programmes in the region.

How to establish (methodology)
Regional Centres are established normally with cooperation and support of the respective State Governments. The perspective plan is to provide one Regional Centre for every state in the country.


Functions of Regional Centre
The Regional Centre has been defined under Section 2(J) of the IGNOU Act as under: "Regional Centre" means a Centre established or maintained by the University for the purpose of coordinating and supervising the work of the Study Centres in any region and for performing such other functions as may be conferred on such Centre by the Board of Management (BoM). Further, under Section 5(1) (XXII) of the Act, the University is empowered to confer autonomous status to a Regional Centre have been established by IGNOU to coordinate and supervise the work of the Study Centres.


Facilities
Regional Centres, the sub-office of the University for all practical purposes, are also intended to act as resource centres of the IGNOU University in respective regions. Regional Centres are centres for training coordinators/counsellors/other functionaries and would provide a venue for the students and the academic counsellors to express their responses with reference to a particular subject. Responsibility for random checking of student assignment, if needed, would also lie with Regional Centres.

Therefore, following facilities have been provided at Regional Centres:
Library course material
Video cassettes
Audio cassettes
Computers
Telex/fax
TV/VCR etc.


IGNOU Regional Center List of 2012

1. IGNOU Agartala Regional Center
2. IGNOU Ahmedabad Regional Center
3. IGNOU Aligarh Regional Center
4. IGNOU Bangalore Regional Center
5. IGNOU Bhopal Regional Center
6. IGNOU Bhubaneswar Regional Center
7. IGNOU Chandigarh Regional Center
8. IGNOU Chennai Regional Center
9. IGNOU Cochin Regional Center
10. IGNOU Darbhanga Regional Center
11. IGNOU Dehradun Regional Center
12. IGNOU Delhi Regional Center
13. IGNOU Guwahati Regional Center
14. IGNOU Hyderabad Regional Center
15. IGNOU Jabalpur Regional Center
16. IGNOU Jaipur Regional Center
17. IGNOU Jammu Regional Center
18. IGNOU Jorhat Regional Center
19. IGNOU Karnal Regional Center
20. IGNOU Khanna Regional Center
21. IGNOU Kohima Regional Center
22. IGNOU Kolkata Regional Center
23. IGNOU Koraput Regional Center
24. IGNOU Lucknow Regional Center
25. IGNOU Madurai Regional Center
26. IGNOU Mumbai Regional Center
27. IGNOU Nagpur Regional Center
28. IGNOU Noida Regional Center
29. IGNOU Panaji Regional Center
30. IGNOU Patna Regional Center
31. IGNOU Port Blair Regional Center
32. IGNOU Pune Regional Center
33. IGNOU Raghunathganj Regional Center
34. IGNOU Raipur Regional Center
35. IGNOU Rajkot Regional Center
36. IGNOU Ranchi Regional Center
37. IGNOU Shillong Regional Center
38. IGNOU Shimla Regional Center
39. IGNOU Siliguri Regional Center
40. IGNOU Srinagar Regional Center
41. IGNOU Trivandrum Regional Center
42. IGNOU Varanasi Regional Center
43. IGNOU Vijayawada Regional Center