Now a days there are many universities affiliated to ugc.among them some are govt. universities and some are private.as like that some university provides only regular courses and some university provides regular along with distance courses.Netaji Subhas open university is one of the university that offers distance couses to different programmes. they have all programmes of arts group like bengali, englishgeography etc, programmes of science group like math, physics, chemistry etc. and programmes of commerce.apart from that they have many other academic also. it is affiliated to UGC.the administration is more or less and the couese fee is affordable as it is a distance programme given open university. as extra curriculam it can be said that all the courses are as like other regular programme given universities but one can extend his or her course time or duration upto 8 years.in regular universities the course dutration is of 3 years but here the course time can be extended to 8 years upto.there are many others extra curricular activies like excursions, projects amd many others. for the alumni network one have to contact with the students of the university of diffrent courses or one can get information about courses details or fees structure or others form the regional office of the university situated at salt lake.the exact location can be find out from the net. overall it can be said that it could be good for those people who wants to do their couses along with their jobs at a time basis that they want.