Abstract

: In distance learning, the students support services play a major role in teaching-learning process. Recently, lndira Gandhi National Open University introduced the interactive radio counselling to strengthen its students support service system. There has been a long felt need of the students to interact with the eminent speakers, professors and guest faculty members at the time of teaching-learning process. The interactive radio counselling system provides an excellent opportunity to learners, especially from remote places, to interact with the speakers at the teaching end and also get their doubts clarified. The gener~pl ublic also get an opportunity to interact with the eminent speakers and upgrade their knowledge and sharpen their skills. In order to ascertain whether the programme is effective among the learners for their independent, autonomous learning, this study was carried out. The study reveals that the interactive radio is received well, but needs more attention to be effective.