Port Blair, Mar 01: To protect our environment, the Indira Gandhi National Open University, Government of India is taking many initiatives to avoid single use plastics/no to plastic etc. The Regional Centre, Port Blair has sent SMS to all IGNOU students, not- to- use -plastic items in the assignments. All the IGNOU students are advised, not –to-use the use of plastic items, such as: spiral binding, comb binding, laminations, use of plastic stick, plastic cover, transparent plastic sheet, color plastic sheets at the back etc, in the assignment papers. Strictly instructed the students to remove all the plastic items as part of assignments, if any, and then only the assignments will be accepted at Study Centre. The Assignment Acknowledge Slip will be issued only for plastic free assignments. The students are advised to use simple thread, tag, and stapling pin for bunching the assignment papers. The assignments which are written on one side of the paper will be rejected. To save tree, student should write on both side of the paper.
A communication from the Regional Director, IGNOU Regional Centre, Port Blair said.
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