The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) was set up as the National Open School in 1989 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, as an autonomous organization. The Mission of NIOS is to provide education to all with special concern for girls and women, rural youth, working men and women, SCs and STs, differently abled persons and other disadvantaged persons who be
cause of one or other reason could not continue their education in the formal system of education. NIOS has taken special initiatives for imparting education to Jail Inmates by setting up Study Centres in Jails all over India and granting them full fee exemption. NIOS operates through a network of Twenty Regional Centres, One Sub-Regional Centre, One Sub-Regional Cell and more than five thousand five hundred Accredited Institutions (AIs) and Accredited Vocational Institutions (AVIs) popularity known as Study Centres in India, Nepal and Middle East Countries. For academic courses, admission is through On-line only.
