Jamia doubles no. of centres in distance education wing

To meet the increasing demand, Jamia Millia Islamia has nearly doubled the number of study centres under its distance education wing from this academic session, for which admission begins on Monday. “We had got over 1 lakh applications for the 6,500 seats offered through regular mode. Seeing the huge demand, we decided to double the number of study centres,” vice-chancellor Talat Ahmed said. “The number of study centres has been increased from 38 to 62 from 2015-16 academic session,” he added.