nagpur the nagpur centre of indira gandhi national open university ignou introduced three new courses from the forthcoming academic session commencing from july they are post graduate diploma in urban planning and development pgdupdl certificate courses in health care and diploma in nutrition and health education dnhe currently the university is offering 228 programmes ranging from certificate courses to mphil and phd the programmes are launched in lieu of the problems of urbanization in india having second largest urban system in the world this specialized diploma provides training to town planners real estate developers and architects and has five courses for one year duration with rs 2800 fees for each unit director p sivaswaroop and assistant director vikas singhal told reporters the certificate programmes included certificate in maternal and child health nursing cmchn certificate in newborn and infant nursing cnin and certificate homebased health care chbhc which would be conducted at maa ganga nursing school in washim the diploma in nutrition and health education dnhe and certificate in food and nutrition cfn programmes would be conducted at db science college in gondia as the region is known for its high malnutrition cases were also taking help of local ngos and selfhelp groups shgs to improve the situation in that region the duo informed among their new initiatives sivaswaroop and singhal added that they had started special camp at tribaldominated gadchiroli district where 20 women have taken admission for various shortterm courses they have also started nutritional courses in remote areas like melghat of vidarbha where mortality rates due to malnutrition are quire high the last date for admission without late fees is july 8 and with late fees of rs 300 is july 30 the admission for pg courses like mba and med is through entrance exams and any graduate securing minimum 40 in the entrance and three to four years of professional experience are eligiblewith inputs from abhishek majumdar