New Delhi sources have made a statement that IGNOU Vice Chancellor stated that a question by a transgender from Cochin during a video-conference prompted the IGNOU to exempt fee for the students from the community. Meanwhile during the video conference meeting last month, one of the participants asked as to what has the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) done for the community.
Moreover in his impulsive answer, Vice Chancellor Ravindra Kumar announced the university is going to make it free for the community. "Everything fell in place after the announcement". The Vice Chancellor said that the IGNOU will also set up dedicated learning support centres, apart from libraries and Internet facility, exclusively for the community at every regional centre.
Manoj Gurnal, a student from the community who has applied for admission this year stated that Delhi, Jammu, Ranchi, Bhubaneshwar, northeast's Agartala, Imphal and Itanagar are some of the cities that have sent the highest students belonging to the category. "They have got an opportunity to uplift ourselves from a state where we were stuck".
