How to Change IGNOU Regional Center - Experiences

We had written a blogpost on how to change IGNOU Regional Center and Study Center in the previous Post. You can read it HERE.

How to Change IGNOU Regional Center - Experiences

This experience is taken from Quora.com which has user generated experience of changing IGNOU Regional Centers. We have published it here with necessary editing to help you understand the process of change of IGNOU Regional Center.

The User Asks:

"What is the procedure to change the IGNOU regional center for MA (English) from Jaipur to Bangalore?

I enrolled for MA in English in Jaipur (January 2014). Now, I shifted to Bangalore (Indira Nagar). I would like to know the procedure to change my IGNOU regional centre. Do I need to visit Jaipur center for any formalities? Is the transfer process possible through mails? 

Kindly help if anyone has changed their IGNOU regional center."


USER's Response:

I wrote an email asking Jaipur IGNOU Regional Center to change my IGNOU Regional Center to Bangalore (mentioned my IGNOU enrollment number, IGNOU Registration Number, IGNOU Course Code, Year of Joining in IGNOU and asked for change of phone number and address change too).

In a few days, I got a reply from Jaipur Regional Center that my request is under process as my fee details and assignment if any, is transferred to Bangalore Regional Center of IGNOU University and I need to contact Bangalore Regional Center of IGNOU University.

Next, I wrote a mail to Bangalore Regional Center of IGNOU University stating control number (which was given by Jaipur Regional Center of IGNOU University reply mail from Jaipur Regional Center) and followed up with them on call. Currently, it is in progress. The Bangalore Regional Center of IGNOU University has stated that I will get a mail from Bangalore Regional Center of IGNOU University in a week which will mention my Bangalore study center of IGNOU University

OUR COMMENTS:

In the above case, the IGNOU Regional Center at Jaipur and Bangalore were relaxed and they initiated the process even after getting an email. However, not all Regional Center of IGNOU University may act on email. Therefore, it is advised to the students to write an official letter and attach the necessary forms for change of IGNOU Regional Center. It is better to visit in Person or through someone to the Current IGNOU Regional Center where you are registered and it is also advised to visit in Person to the Regional Center where you want your registration to be changed/Shifted/transferred. If you can not visit the Regional Center of IGNOU University, then, send your requests by Registered Post of India Post or by Courier and start following up by email or Phone.

Change of IGNOU Regional Center (RC) and Change of Study Center (SC)

If you are student of IGNOU University, or if you are thinking to join as IGNOU Students, we will encourage you to do so. IGNOU is the best University when it comes to distance learning or correspondence courses in India. IGNOu also has the very scientific and updated course structure and it imparts the great quality education. There is no doubt about the standard of Education IGNOU University New Delhi provides. There is no doubt about the quality of online education provided by IGNOU New Delhi.

It is also an undisputable fact that many students enrolled in IGNOU Delhi are working professionals who are working in various cities and towns and have no full time for attending regular lectures. In this situation, the students need to enroll online course offered by IGNOU, Delhi. Since people will be working, they will get transferred from one city to another or people move from one place to another to get a better job. In this situation, it is important that they change their IGNOU Regional Center (RC) and IGNOU Study Center (SC) so that the whole process of learning becomes convenient.

In this blogpost, we are explaining how to change your Regional Center (RC) of IGNOU from one state to another and how to change your Study Center (SC) IGNOU from one IGNOU Study Center to another.

1. IGNOU Change of Study Center within the same IGNOU Regional Center (RC)

It is easier to change IGNOU Study Center within the same IGNOU Regional Center. For this change of IGNOU Study Center, download the FORM below and submit it to your Regional Center.
http://www.ignou.ac.in/upload/Study_Centre_Change.pdf

The Change of Study Center within the same IGNOU Regional Center is easy as the form will ask your current study center details/Code and asks you desired study center details/code where you want to change your study center. The above form deals with Sub: Request for Change of Study Centre and it should be submitted to your IGNOU Regional Center of your State.

2. IGNOU Change of Regional Center from one IGNOU Regional Center (RC) to another Regional Center at another State.

Since one state can have only one IGNOU Regional Center, it means you are going to shift from one state to another state if you are thinking of changing IGNOU Regional Center. Therefore, there will be people who need change of IGNOU Regional Center because of change of state of their job or because of change of place of business. The people who need to move from one state to another like from Andhra Pradesh to Karnataka, from TamilNadu to Maharashtra, from Delhi to Madhya Pradesh etc. need to change their IGNOU Regional Center and this can be little complicated.

First of all, see the booklets from the link below: http://ignou.ac.in/userfiles/Student%20Related%20Forms.pdf

On the booklet prepared by Aligarh Regional Center of IGNOU, the form to change the Regional Center of IGNOU has been given on page 26. Therefore, as per the form, you need to make the change of Regional Center Request to the existing Regional Center where you are currently registered.
Once the existing IGNOU Regional Center receives such request, it will transfer your files and all the records to another Regional Center where you want your IGNOU Records to be transferred. So, You have to first make a request to existing IGNOU Regional Center to transfer your IGNOU details and records to another IGNOU Regional Center and start contacting another IGNOU Regional Center in another state where you want your IGNOU Registration and details to be transferred. Please note that you need to contact the new Regional Center of IGNOU to make sure that things happen on time and quickly. This is how you have to change your Regional Center of IGNOU.

You can download the booklet which contains form for changing IGNOU Regional Center from Here:

http://ignou.ac.in/userfiles/Student%20Related%20Forms.pdf

When you change your IGNOU Regional Center, you have to also change your IGNOu Study Center from the existing Regional Center to the new Regional Center. Therefore, you need to find out yourself about new Study Center of IGNOU under new Regional Center which deals with your course and where you will have easy access. Of Course, IGNOU Regional Centers will help you to make a decision and you can find more information about IGNOU Regional Center and Study Center in the websites also.

Ask us if you have any questions.