Question : NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OPEN SCHOOLING

(a) whether the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) are operating various schemes/projects, for the benefit of students;

(b) if so, the details thereof, scheme wise;

(c) the extent to which the students have been benefited, particularly the minorities, along with the funds earmarked and utilized during the last two years and the current year;

(d) the details of the accredited centres of NIOS for overseas students; and

(e) the number of students registered with these centres in different countries?

MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI. KAPIL SIBAL)

(a) to (e): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO THE PARTS (a) TO (e) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.381 FOR 21.12.2011 ASKED BY SHRI. HASSAN KHAN REGARDING NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OPEN SCHOOLING (NIOS)

(a) & (b): The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) offers programmes through Open Distance Learning Mode. NIOS conducts examinations for Secondary and Senior Secondary courses and enrolls students under various academic and vocational education programmes.

Currently NIOS runs the following Programmes and projects:

# Senior Secondary programme for the students above 15 years of age

# Secondary programme for the students above 14 years of age

# Vocational Education programmes run through Accredited Vocational Institutes (AVIs) for age group 14+

# Hunar Projects for Muslim Girls for skill training

# Open Basic Education for neo-literate adults

(c): The number of learners including learners from minority communities enrolled in NIOS is as under:

Year	Total	Learners from	Learners	minority	enrolled	communities enrolled
2009-10	438906 88983
2010-11	493091 92185
2011-	366539 62696
12(upto
31st Oct.,
2011)

(Rs. in crores)
Year	Budget Expenditure
Plan Income	Plan From	Fund genera Fund intern	From ted by	from al	GOI NIOS	GOI funds
2009-10	15.00 89.35 11.61 69.75
2010-11	11.25 99.07 08.19 71.98
2011-12	15.00 40.83 06.02 37.15
(upto
31st
Oct.,
2011)

(Rs. in lakhs)
Year Funds spent
 Bihar Delhi
2009-10	74.60 
2010-11	14.77 1.05
2011-12	09.09 7.58
(upto 31st
Oct., 2011)

S.	Country	Number	Enrolment
No of
. Accredited Institutions
(AIs)
1 UAE (Abu Dhabi, 7	437
Dubai & Sharjah)
2 Kuwait 1	78
3 Qatar 2	49
4 Oman (Muscat) 1	93
5 Nepal 4	1781
Total	15	2438