The National Education Policy, 1986 recommended the establishment of ______ in the country.

The National Education Policy of 1986 recommended setting up Open Universities to widen access through distance learning.

Community colleges were not the institution this policy recommended establishing.

National universities of eminence belong to later policy language, not the 1986 recommendation.

Discipline-wise universities were not what the 1986 policy proposed.

This gave impetus to the open and distance learning system for working and disadvantaged learners.

The Indira Gandhi National Open University had been set up in 1985, just before this policy.