U’khand will be first in education said Tolia

Nainital : Uttarakhand Will be first in education said Chief Information Commissioner Dr RS Tolia. He said today that the Uttarakhand Open University would be successful in bringing the far flung places of the state within its ambit and, in the time to come.
Tolia was addressing participants, as the Chief Guest, after inaugurating a workshop at the ATI, here, on ‘The path to development of open and distant education in Uttarakhand’. The Vice Chancellor of Kumaon University, Dr VPS Arora promised every possible help the spread of education.Director of the Distant Education Council, Professor Manjulika Srivastav, disclosed that there were only 14 Open Universities in the country, but efforts are being made to establish Open Universities in every state. The Vice Chancellor of Uttarakhand Open University, Professor Vinay Pathak, said that his three year tenure would be dedicated to providing education facilities to everyone in the state.