Section 4(b) in The Netaji Subhas Open University Act, 1997
(b)to provide opportunities for higher education to men and women (i) being deprived of the benefit of higher education in the normal course owing to socio-economic conditions or other limitations or (ii) being drop-outs or (iii) being brought under the scheme of adult education or (iv) working in homes or engaged in cultivations or employed in factories, offices or schools or engaged in any profession or vocation;
