Address:H.O.D.
Faculty of Distance Education TMU,
Gultekadi Pune – 411037,Maharastra,India.
Phones :+91-20 – 24266700, 5619119.
FAX :+91-20 - 24266068, 020-24266701.
Email: TMU@TMU.ernet.in
Website: http://www.tmv.edu.in

A Brief Profile:Tilak Maharashtra University entered in to the field of Distance Education in 1985 with the establishment of Faculty of Distance Education (FDE ) with its institutional aim of promoting national education and nationalism, faith in democracy and sense of civic responsibilities, through the curricula of different Programmes, and with its faculty objective of reaching the unreached, the deprived section of our society. B.A. (Visharad) Social Sciences was the only Programme on offer till 2000.

Though TMU was aware of the network and system of Distance Education in India and the world around, it was in the year 1991, when FDE appeared in the Directory of Distance Education in India, published by Association of Indian University (AIU) and Commonwealth of Learning (COL), FDE became part and parcel of this network. FDE Started interacting with other Open and Distance learning Institutions in India, which gave it an impetus for its development.

The Development assistance provided by Distance Education Council (DEC) IGNOU, New Delhi, in the 9th Plan initiated a new stage of development in the history of FDE. With financial assistance received from DEC in IXth and Xth plan, many projects could be undertaken, such as Development of Study material,Launching of new programmes. Translations of Study material, Study Center Development, Quality improvement,and use of Technology . According to the guidelines given by DEC for Impact Assessment a ‘Self Study Report’ and ‘Self Analysis Report’ was submitted to DEC, IGNOU New Delhi in 2003 – 2004. In this connection the DEC Expert committee visited the Department On 6th – 7th October 2004, the team gave a satisfactory report about the visit.