Jammu: Twenty-six years after starting its operations in Jammu and Kashmir, IGNOU now has its own campus here in Jammu.

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan virtually inaugurated the state-of-the-art campus building of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Regional Centre, Jammu spread over a two acre-plot at Bantalab in the outskirts of the city on Wednesday.

Having a built-up area of around 6,800 square feet, the new campus building has a high-tech electric, electronic, CCTV, solar, intercom, electronic private automatic branch exchange (EPABX) and fire alarm, said Jai Prakash Verma, Regional Director, IGNOU Regional Centre, Jammu.

This story has been sourced from PTI.