Kumar, who retired today after a tenure of nearly one year, was instrumental in providing fee exemption to transgender students and relocation of its regional centres among other major initiatives.
"IGNOU is a phenomenal system. Unfortunately, its contributions have not been properly assessed," Kumar said.
He, however, clarified that he did not hold anyone in particular responsible for the varsity's contribution being "understated".
Kumar said textbooks of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) were unparallelled as it tried to bridge the gap between textbooks and syllabus.
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He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would inaugurate in December this year IGNOU's two major solar education programmes -- Solar Awareness and Solar Applications in Water Pump -- to be offered to students from the countries in the International Solar Alliance.
According to varsity sources, the senior most professor among directors of IGNOU normally takes over as the next VC.
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