IGNOU MAEVS Project Hard Copy for MEVP 012

The IGNOU MAEVS project, course code MEVP 012, is the 6-credit Project Work course in the fourth semester of the Master of Arts (Environmental Studies). You submit one bound report plus a CD to the Student Evaluation Division in one of two fixed yearly windows: 1 July to 30 September, or 1 January to 31 March.

That last sentence is the reason this page exists. Most pages ranking for MEVP 12 tell MAEVS students the deadline is 31 May or 30 November. Those are the dates used by several other IGNOU project courses. They are not the dates printed in the MEVP-012 Handbook on Project Work, and a student who plans around them can post a finished report in May, miss the window that closed on 31 March, and wait until the next viva cycle. This category holds printed MEVP 012 reference sets, and the sections below set out what the official handbook and the Common Prospectus actually say about the MAEVS project and dissertation.

What is MEVP 012 in the IGNOU MAEVS programme?

MEVP 012 is the compulsory Project Work course of IGNOU MAEVS, the Master of Arts (Environmental Studies) run by the School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-disciplinary Studies. It carries 6 credits and sits in the fourth semester, at the end of an 80-credit programme. The MAEVS assignment booklet prints the course as Project/Dissertation, so both words describe the same course.

MAEVS is a semester-wise programme with a modular design. A learner who finishes only the first year exits with a Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Studies, and the project does not appear at that stage at all. MEVP 012 belongs to the full master’s route. It is also the one course in MAEVS with no term-end question paper and no tutor marked assignment behind it: the marks come entirely from a written report and a viva-voce. Entry to MAEVS is open to graduates of any discipline, which is why an MEVP 012 cohort mixes science graduates with teachers, journalists and policy staff, and why the project design has to work without laboratory access.

Where MEVP 012 sits in the MAEVS structure

Source: IGNOU Common Prospectus July 2026, section 3.42, and the MAEVS assignment booklets published by SOITS.

MEVP 012 is not MEVP 11, MEVP 033, MEVP 054 or MNMP 012

Our search data for this page shows a steady trickle of visitors arriving on queries meant for other environment project courses, including M.Sc. and geography project searches. The codes sit close together and the titles are nearly identical, so it is worth spending thirty seconds to confirm yours. Your correct code is the one printed against Project Work in your own programme structure, not the one your friend in another SOITS programme is using.

Source: IGNOU Common Prospectus July 2026 programme structures, and the MNMP-012 project manual published by SOJNMS.

If you are looking for a school environmental project, this is the wrong shelf

A share of the traffic reaching this page comes from class 11 and class 12 environmental education searches: paryavaran projects, water pollution investigatory projects, and environment and water security files. Nothing here will help with those. MEVP 012 is a postgraduate research course with a supervisor, an approval stage, a bound submission to a university division and an oral examination. If you are at school, your teacher sets the format, not IGNOU. If you are enrolled in MAEVS and your enrolment number is active, read on.

What is the last date to submit the IGNOU MEVP 012 project report?

There is no single last date. The MEVP-012 handbook gives two submission windows that repeat every year: 1 July to 30 September and 1 January to 31 March. A bound MEVP 012 report posted inside a window is taken up in that cycle. A report posted between the windows waits for the next one to open.

This changes how you plan backwards. The handbook puts no window at all on the earlier steps: you may pick a supervisor, send the bio-data and submit the project proposal at any time of the year, and you carry out the field or desk work at your own convenience. All the time pressure sits on one act, posting the bound MEVP 012 report and the CD. The viva-voce month then follows automatically from the window you used. That is the whole MEVP 012 calendar, and it is far more forgiving than the panic most students arrive with, provided the posting date lands inside a window.

Source: MEVP-012 Handbook on Project Work, schedule of project activities. The third row is the consequence of the first two, not a separate rule.

So what are the 31 May and 30 November dates everyone quotes?

They belong to other IGNOU project courses, and on several of those they are result-window boundaries rather than true deadlines. They are not printed anywhere in the MEVP-012 handbook. If a page tells you to post your MAEVS project report by 31 May, test it against the handbook before you act: 31 May sits two months after the January to March window closed and one month before the July window opens, which is the worst possible date to post a MEVP 012 report. The same applies to 30 November, which falls two months after the July to September window shuts.

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What goes inside the MEVP 012 hard copy you post

The MEVP-012 handbook asks for one bound copy of the original project report, together with a CD carrying the soft copy of the same report as a PDF. Attached to that report are the original approved project proposal proforma and the signed Certificate of Originality. The envelope is addressed to the Student Evaluation Division at IGNOU, Maidan Garhi.

Read that as a package rather than a document. Four separate items travel together, and three of them are produced at different points in the year, which is why they go missing. The proforma was signed when you were still choosing a topic. The Certificate of Originality is signed at the very end. The CD is usually burned on the last day. Students who assemble the package in one sitting, rather than hunting for the proforma the morning the courier closes, are the ones whose MEVP 012 submission goes through without a query. Write the envelope line exactly as the handbook prints it, because that line is what routes your parcel inside a division that receives project reports from every programme IGNOU runs.

Source: MEVP-012 Handbook on Project Work, sections 4.1 and 4.2 and Annexures I and II.

What you post, and what you must keep

One instruction in the handbook is easy to read past and expensive to ignore. You are told to retain a photocopy of the project report, because you may be asked to produce it in front of the examiner at the viva-voce. The bound original leaves your hands in September or March. The viva is in January or July. That is a gap of three to four months in which your only copy of your own work, if you kept none, is inside a university division.

• Goes in the envelope: the bound original report, the CD, the original approved proforma, and the signed Certificate of Originality.
• Stays with you: a full photocopy of the report, carried to the viva-voce. Keep the postal receipt with it.
• Stays with you as working papers: your questionnaire masters, raw data sheets and any permission letters. The evaluator can ask how a number was produced.

Which signatures have to match on your MEVP 012 project report

The MEVP-012 handbook sets one condition that has nothing to do with research quality: the project supervisor’s signature on the Certificate of Originality must tally with the supervisor’s signature on the project proposal proforma. Two documents, signed months apart, are compared against each other at the receiving end.

This is a real failure point in MAEVS, more than in programmes where the guide is a campus faculty member you see weekly. MAEVS supervisors are often external, and a great deal can change between the proposal and the report: the supervisor signs the first document quickly between other commitments, signs the second with a different pen, a different initial, or in a different style. Worse, some students change supervisor midway and get the Certificate of Originality signed by the new person while the proforma on file still carries the old one. The chain below is the one your package is checked against, so run it before the envelope is sealed.

Source: MEVP-012 Handbook on Project Work. The handbook states explicitly that the supervisor signature in the Certificate of Originality should tally with the signature in the project proposal proforma.

Who can be your MEVP 012 project supervisor?

The MEVP-012 handbook lists three routes, and only three. An IGNOU academic counsellor at a Learner Support Centre for the MAEVS programme with relevant experience. A teacher or researcher in environmental science, environmental studies or a related discipline who meets a stated qualification bar. Or a faculty member at IGNOU headquarters in SOITS.

The qualification bar on the middle route is specific, and it is the one most often described loosely elsewhere. A Ph.D. in environmental science, environmental studies or a related discipline needs two years of teaching or research experience. A master’s degree in the same fields needs five years. Note that the handbook writes this route as M.Sc. even though MAEVS itself is an M.A., so a prospective supervisor with an M.A. in a related environmental discipline is worth confirming with your Programme Study Centre rather than assuming either way. You may approach a supervisor at any time of the year, on your own or through your Centre Coordinator.

• Route A: IGNOU academic counsellor at a Learner Support Centre for MAEVS, with relevant experience.
• Route B: Teacher or researcher in environmental science, environmental studies or a related discipline. Ph.D. with 2 years of teaching or research experience, or a master’s with 5 years.
• Route C: Faculty at IGNOU headquarters, School of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies.

Discuss My MEVP 012 Topic and Method

How MEVP 012 is marked, and when the viva-voce happens

MEVP 012 carries 100 marks, split as 70 for the project report and 30 for the viva-voce. A project evaluator marks the report. The same evaluator conducts the viva-voce in the presence of the Coordinator of your Programme Study Centre or Study Centre. The viva is intimated to you in advance by that coordinator.

Two practical consequences follow from that split. First, the viva is not optional and not reserved for borderline cases, which is how several competing pages describe it. Thirty marks out of a hundred sit there for every MAEVS student, and Regional Centres publish MEVP-012 viva schedules alongside MEVP-011 schedules for a given term-end examination. Second, the person who marked your report is the person asking the questions. They have already read your methodology chapter and already know which table you cannot explain. Preparing for a MEVP 012 viva means being able to defend your sample size, your tool and your interpretation, not re-reading your introduction.

Source: MEVP-012 Handbook on Project Work, section 5 and Annexure IV, Evaluation Scheme for Project Work.

What you pay for MEVP 012 evaluation

The project evaluation fee is tied to credits, not to programme. The Common Prospectus sets Rs 300 for project work up to 4 credits and Rs 500 for project work above 4 credits. MEVP 012 is a 6-credit course, so the Rs 500 slab applies. The fee is submitted with the term-end examination form, and the prospectus states that an examination fee once paid is neither refundable nor adjustable. Do not confuse this with the token honorarium IGNOU pays your supervisor under its own norms, which is a payment to them, not by you.

Where the MEVP 012 proposal goes before any of this

The MEVP 012 project proposal goes to the Coordinator of your Programme Study Centre or Study Centre, together with the proposal proforma and the supervisor’s signed bio-data. It does not go to the Regional Director, and it does not go to the Student Evaluation Division. Only the finished report goes to SED.

This routing is specific to MEVP 012 and it is the second most common error on pages about the MAEVS project, after the deadline. Several widely read guides send MAEVS students to the Regional Centre, which is correct for the MBA project course and wrong here. The handbook puts no window on this step either: the bio-data and the proposal may be submitted at any time of the year, and approval is communicated to you in writing. Because nothing forces the pace, the proposal is where MAEVS students lose the most time, often months, before the first window they could have used has already closed.

Source: MEVP-012 Handbook on Project Work, steps involved in the project work.

The proposal itself is a short document built around the title, the introduction and objectives, the methodology and the tools you will use, and the utility or scope of the work. Writing it well is a separate task with its own rules, and the soft copy side of this catalogue carries the reference material aimed at that stage.

Printed MEVP 012 reference sets in this category

This category holds printed MAEVS reference sets. Each set pairs a sample MEVP 12 synopsis or proposal with a sample MEVP 12 project report and dissertation, supplied as a hard copy you can hold, mark up and compare against your own draft while you write.

They exist for one reason. The MEVP-012 handbook tells you what a project report must contain, but it does not show you a finished one, and a first-time researcher reading an instruction such as results and discussion in tabular form has no picture of what that looks like at the right length for a 6-credit MAEVS course. A printed set gives you that picture. Students use them to settle practical questions: how long a literature review needs to be, how a questionnaire is reproduced in an annexure, where the proforma and the Certificate of Originality sit in the bound order, and how far interpretation goes beyond simply describing a table.

The printed MEVP 12 sets currently listed in this category appear below. Each one covers a different topic area, so if you want to see how two different research designs are handled, comparing two sets is more useful than reading one twice.

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What gets a MEVP 012 hard copy returned or delayed

Every item below traces to a stated rule in the MEVP-012 handbook or to the Common Prospectus, not to anecdote. Read it as a pre-posting checklist, because each one is a defect you can fix in an afternoon while the envelope is still open and cannot fix once it has gone.

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More questions MAEVS students ask about MEVP 012

Is there an official MEVP 012 project PDF, and where do I get it?

Yes. IGNOU publishes the MEVP-012 Handbook on Project Work through eGyanKosh, issued in 2024 by SOITS. It is the document this page is built on, and it contains the schedule, the supervisor qualifications, the report instructions and the annexures, including the proposal proforma and the Certificate of Originality format. Search queries for an MEVP 12 project PDF usually mean either this handbook or a sample report, and they are two different things.

How long should the MEVP 012 project report be?

No word limit or page limit for MEVP 012 appeared in the handbook text available to us. The figures circulating online disagree with each other, ranging from 8,000 to 15,000 words depending on which site you read, and none of them cites a source. Treat them as opinion. What the handbook does specify is double spacing, a bound copy and a CD with the PDF. Ask your supervisor what length suits your design, and match the sample sets in this category for a realistic sense of scale.

Does IGNOU prescribe a font or margin size for MEVP 012?

Nothing on fonts, margins or a referencing style appeared in the MEVP-012 handbook text we could read. Pages that specify Times New Roman 12 point and one-inch margins for the MAEVS project are stating a convention, not an IGNOU rule. Double spacing is the one typing instruction the handbook does give. If your Programme Study Centre has issued its own additional preference, follow that.

Can I write my MEVP 012 project in Hindi?

The Common Prospectus gives English as the medium of instruction for MAEVS, and the handbook does not describe a separate language rule for the MEVP 012 report. Students who want to write in Hindi should ask the MAEVS programme coordinators before drafting, not after. Starting a report in the wrong language is not a problem you can fix in the last week.

Does MEVP 012 have an assignment or a term-end examination paper?

The MAEVS assignment booklets published by SOITS list tutor marked assignments for the theory courses, and the MEVP 012 marks come from the project report and the viva-voce. So the project is where your assessment for this course lives, which is why the 6 credits sit entirely on documents you prepare yourself rather than on an examination hall.

I am exiting with the PG Diploma. Do I still have to do MEVP 012?

No. MAEVS is run on a modular design with lateral entry and exit, and a learner who completes the first year of courses is eligible for the Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Studies. MEVP 012 sits in the fourth semester of the full master’s route. The project becomes compulsory only if you are completing MAEVS itself.

Can I upload the MEVP 012 report online instead of posting a hard copy?

The MEVP-012 handbook asks for a bound copy and a CD sent to the Student Evaluation Division. IGNOU has separately operated online project submission portals for particular cycles across several programmes, and the arrangement has varied by cycle rather than being a permanent rule. Before you decide, check the current SED notice for your term and confirm with your Regional Centre. If no online route is open for MEVP 012 in your cycle, the posted bound copy is the submission.

Other IGNOU MAEVS material on this site

This category covers the printed MEVP 012 project and dissertation reference sets. Students working on the synopsis stage, or on the sister M.Sc. Environmental Science project, usually need a different shelf.

• IGNOU project soft copies, for students who want the reference material as a PDF rather than a printed set.
• All IGNOU project hard copies, if you are comparing printed sets across programmes.
• IGNOU MSCENV project material, for the 8-credit MEVP 11 dissertation of M.Sc. Environmental Science, which is a different course from MEVP 012.
• Contact Shri Chakradhar Publication on 9354637830 or 9958947060 if you are unsure which material applies to your enrolment.

If your MEVP 012 topic has already been approved and you want work prepared around your own approved title rather than a reference set, that is handled by our customised project service on a separate site.

Official IGNOU sources used on this page

Every procedural statement above traces to one of the following. Where a source could not be read in full, that is stated. IGNOU moves document paths, so verify before relying on a link.

Note on sourcing: the MEVP-012 handbook PDF on eGyanKosh blocks automated retrieval. Its contents were read this session through the indexed text of that same official file rather than a third-party copy. Anything we could not confirm in it, such as a word limit or a font rule, is described above as unconfirmed rather than filled in.

About this page

Written and reviewed by BK Sahni, founder of Shri Chakradhar Publication Private Limited, serving IGNOU distance-learning students since 2010. The company runs its own printing press and writing team and publishes reference material for IGNOU programmes.

Last reviewed: 7 October 2026.

How this page was researched: built from the MEVP-012 Handbook on Project Work, the IGNOU Common Prospectus July 2026, the MAEVS programme page and the MAEVS assignment booklets, cross-checked against the search queries this page actually receives. Where widely repeated claims conflicted with the official documents, the official document was followed and the conflict was stated.

Disclaimer: Shri Chakradhar Publication Private Limited is an independent publisher of reference and study material. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an official representative of Indira Gandhi National Open University. Rules and schedules are revised by the University from time to time. Confirm anything date-sensitive with your Regional Centre, your Programme Study Centre or the Student Evaluation Division before you act on it.