Distance Education Council (DEC) is an organisation based in New Delhi, India responsible for the promotion and coordination of the open university and distance education system and for determination of its standards in India. The Council was constituted under the Indira Gandhi National Open University
Act (1985). Its consistent with the duty of the University that takes
all such steps as it may deem fit for the promotion of the Open University and distance education
systems in the educational pattern of the country and for the
coordination and determination of standards of teaching, evaluation
& research in such systems; and in pursuance of the objects of the
University to encourage greater flexibility, diversity, accessibility,
mobility and innovation in education at the University level by making
full use of the latest scientific knowledge and new educational
technology, and to further cooperation between the existing
Universities. It is considered necessary and expedient to establish a
Distance Education Council as an authority of the University under
Section 16 of the Act.
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