DISTANCE EDUCATION

We live in such a society where the life style is very complicated and busy. Hence it becomes very difficult for a student to devote much time. Distance Education has started gaining popularity due to its simplicity and effectiveness for imparting quality education at your door steps. Learning from open schools and Distance Education has become a trend in youngsters and also for the learners of diverse age groups. Institute alone cannot handle the vast population of learners very effectively as Distance Education can very well do.

Situated at a distance of 70 Km North-West of Delhi on the National Highway No.10, Maharshi Dayanand University is spread over a sprawling 740 acres of land on the outskirts of the historic city of Rohtak.
The University named after the great saint, scholar and social reformer Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati, was established in 1976 under an Act of the State Legislature. The University was initially started as residential University for promoting study and reseach in Life Sciences. The character of the University was soon changed to that of an "affiliating University". This was nessitated by the then prevailing circumstances and needs of the area. From a modest beginning with 12 affiliated colleges, the University has bloomed into one of the largest Universities in the country today. It has in its fold 125 colleges and institutes and institutes. These include 68 traditional, 1 Medical, 2 Dental, 3 Ayurvedic, 18 Engineering and 15 Education colleges, besides it has 15 institute of Science, Technology and Management. On the Campus, the University maintains 27 full-fledged Teaching Departments apart from one Postgraduate Regional Center at Rewari. With this infrastructure, the University has approximately 1.6 Lac students on its roll in regular courses. Further Directorate of Distance Education is imparting education to more than 50,000 students through its study centers spread all over the country.

Allahabad Agricultural Institute was established in 1910 as a department of Allahabad Christian College. In 1911, the Agriculture and Technical Department of the College were shifted across the jamuna River from allahabad. In April 1913, the Agriculture and Technical Department were bifurcated from the Arts and Science Department of the Christian College.

On February 1st 1919, the school was re-christened as the Allahabad Agricultural Institute providing a wider scope of expansion, development and broad based educational management.

In order to obtain more academic freedom and to strengthen the specialized programme of teaching research and extension, a proposal was submitted to the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt.of India on 31st August, 1994 for granting the Deemed University Status, University Grants Commission visited the institute. It was encouraging to learn about the report submitted by the visiting team to the commission that the institute has all infrastructural and academic means for granting the deemed university status.

It was on July 29th 1997 that the meeting of the full commission was held at UGC, and it recommended finally to the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt.of India, for issuance of notification for the Deemed University status to Allahabad Agricultural Institute.

On March 15,2000, Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi, Minister of HRD, Govt.of India, approved the recommended of the Unversity Grants Commission to declare Allahabad Agricultural Institute as Deemed Unversity. The Government issued the notification No.F.9-26/94-U.3. dated March 15, 2000 on the same,day as approved by the Honble Minister.