National Institute of Open Schooling

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The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) is a national level board of education in India, controlled and managed by the Government of India. It was established by the Department of School Education and Literacy in 1989. The NIOS operates through a network of five departments, 23 regional centres, two sub-regional centres, two NIOS cells, and more than 7,400 study centres (AIs/AVIs) across India and abroad. It is recognized as the largest open schooling system in the world, with a cumulative enrolment of over 41.3 lakh learners during the last five years. Between 2004 and 2009, NIOS recorded a cumulative enrolment of about 1.5 million students at the secondary and senior secondary levels, and it continues to enrol around 350,000 learners annually. NIOS functions as an autonomous organisation under the Union of India, Department of School Education and Literacy, similar in status to other national educational boards such as the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).

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