Description of Organisational Setup

Organisational Setup of NIOS

The diagram depicts organisational setup of NIOS. National Open School Society/General Body is at the topmost position, followed by the Executive board. The Executive Board comprises of:

  1. Finance Committee
  2. Chairman
  3. Academic Council.
  4. Establishment Commitee

The Chairman is further sub-divided into:

  1. Computer Unit

The Executive board comprises of a Chairman at the top, who looks after 5 different departments:

  1. Academic Department
  2. Vocational Education Department
  3. Evaluation Department
  4. Administration Department.
  5. Student Support Services Department

The Acadamic Department is further sub-divided into:

  1. Media Unit
  2. Capacity Building
  3. Research and Development Cell

The Administration Department is further sub-divided into:

  1. Purchase & maintainance Branch
  2. Accounts and Audit
  3. Personnel Branch
  4. Recruitment Cell
  5. Printing Unit
  6. Distribution Unit
  7. Legal Cell
  8. Hindi Cell
  9. Public Relations Unit

Student Support Services Department also looks after different Regional and Sub-regional Centers. The regional centers of the institute are located in different cities of India including: Allahabad, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderbad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Kochi, Patna, Pune, Dehradun, Bhubneshwar, Bengaluru and Gandhinagar. The Sub-regional centers are located at Darbhanga, Visakhapatnam and Cell at port Blair.