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Established : 1997
Type : State Universitie
ADMISSION 2025-26Address : DD-26, Sector-I, Salt Lake City, Kolkata - 700 064
City : Kolkata
State : West Bengal
Country : India
Pin Code : 700 064
Contact Number : 03340663220
Email Account : [email protected]
Website : NSOU
Following this, a State Act (W.B. Act (XIX) of 1997 and Recognised by U.G.C.) was passed on the 20th August 1997 in favour of opening a University for imparting Distance Education. Netaji Subhas Open University was established by bifurcated Netaji Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) and in terms of the Act of West Bengal State Legislative Assembly and is housed in Historic building of Sri Sarat Chandra Bose, elder brother of Netaji. The University started functioning with effect from July 1998 Semester, only with the Bachelor's Degree Programme in Arts & Commerce to provide an opportunity of higher education in the vernacular medium to various disadvantaged groups of aspiring learners. It is the tenth Open University of the country and the ninth State Open University.