The Karnataka State Open University, a pioneer in the sphere of distance education in India, has great pleasure in greeting you at its worldwide portal here. For an institution whose very building blocks are Openness and Universality, nothing more Open and more Universal could have happened than this worldwide website. The launching of this site is thus a groundbreaking event for the university. It now looks forward to a whole new revolutionary era in its history where it will be able to deliver ever more effective services to its student community, propelled by the growing power of the Internet.