National Institute of Open Schooling

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National institute of Open Schooling
AbbreviationNIOS
Formation1989; 35 years ago (1989)
Legal statusActive
HeadquartersNoida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Official language
  • English
  • Hindi
Chairman
Saroj Sharma
Parent organisation
Ministry of Education
(Government of India)
Websitehttps://www.nios.ac.in
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The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), formerly National Open School is a national level board of education in India, controlled and managed by the Government of India. It was established by the Ministry of Education (erstwhile Ministry of Human Resource Development) of the Government of India in 1989.[1]

NIOS had a cumulative enrollment of about 15 lakh (1.5 million) students from 2004 to 2009 at secondary and senior secondary levels and enrolls about 3.5 lakh (350k) students annually which makes it the largest open schooling system in the world.[2]

  1. ^ "National Institute Of Open Schooling". Nos.org. 19 February 2012. Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  2. ^ "pub_PS_OpenSchooling_web" (PDF). Col.org. Retrieved 3 July 2015.