IGNOU BAFFSM Handwritten Assignment: All BFO and BFOC Facility Management Codes

What the BAFFSM Courier Packet Holds

Each course code you name becomes its own stapled set inside one courier packet, so a learner sending BFO-007, BFO-008 and BFO-010 receives three separate sets rather than one merged bundle. A BFO set carries the five answers the paper asks for, because the note printed on every BFO Tutor Marked Assignment reads the same way: ten questions are printed, any five are attempted, each carries 20 marks and each should run to about 600 words. That puts a complete BFO set at roughly 3,000 words of handwriting, which is the effort this order takes off your hands.

Three further items travel with the answers. The first is an IGNOU-format front page, free with every order, laid out for the details the BAFFSM booklet asks you to write on page one: your enrolment number, name, address, the assignment code and your Study Centre code. You complete and sign it yourself. The second is a copy of the official question paper for that code and cycle, so the evaluator can match each answer to its question number and so you can check the set before you hand it in. The third is the courier packaging itself, which is already paid for inside the rate.

No soft copy or PDF is sold. What reaches you is paper, written by hand, and the answers follow the numbering printed on your own BFO or BFOC paper rather than a generic facility management outline. Where a question offers a choice inside itself, such as the BFO-014 short-note question that lets you pick any two of three topics, the set answers the number the paper asks for and names which options were taken.

Inside and Outside the ₹320 BAFFSM Rate

The rate is ₹320 per subject, hard copy only, with courier included in that price and no separate shipping charge. That single figure covers the writing, the matching of the hand to your sample, the free front page, the copy of the question paper and the packet’s journey to your address. There is no minimum order: one subject or fourteen, same rate. A first-year learner with only BFO-003 and BFOC-101 due pays for two subjects, and a third-year learner catching up on BFO-014, BFO-017 and BFO-018 pays for three.

Delivery depends on your pin code and is confirmed for your order before you pay. No figure is promised on this page. Any session is accepted, current cycle or older, including backlog courses, at the same ₹320 per subject. That matters more for BAFFSM than for most programmes, because the same BFO numbers have been issued under two programme codes and learners from the older BAFSM intake often carry papers that no current BAFFSM booklet reprints.

Some things sit outside the rate by their nature. IGNOU’s own fees for registration, re-registration and the term-end examination are paid to IGNOU and never pass through this order. Handing the set in is your step, done at your allotted Study Centre against a receipt. The fourth-year Honours papers, DSC-11 to DSC-14 and the 12-credit project or dissertation, have no course codes printed anywhere in the July 2026 Common Prospectus, so a handwritten set for them can only be prepared once IGNOU issues an actual paper and you can send its code. A scanned or typed version of the set is not part of the rate, because the product is the handwritten hard copy and nothing else.

BAFFSM Solved File or Handwritten Set: Which One Goes to the Study Centre

The two products get confused because they share a course code and a session. A solved assignment is a soft-copy reference file of model answers for one course code and one session, for example BFO-014 for the 2026 cycle, which you read on a screen or print for your own study. A handwritten assignment is the answers written out by hand and submitted in hard copy at the Study Centre, which for BAFFSM means the coordinator of the centre allotted to you. One is something you work from; the other is the object the coordinator receives, records and forwards for evaluation.

On a narrow screen, swipe the table sideways to see every column.

The BAFFSM booklet itself describes the submission as something written. Its guidelines tell you to plan, organise, and then write down the final version for submission, writing each answer neatly, and they direct the finished work to the coordinator of your Study Centre, with a receipt obtained and a photocopy kept. The booklet does not print a stand-alone “handwritten only” sentence and it names no paper size, so the practical rule on format is set by your Study Centre’s notice; some Learner Support Centres publish notices stating that typed or printed assignments are not accepted. A solved file is a reference to write from. It is not a submission, and a downloaded PDF printed and stapled is not what the coordinator is asking for.

If you came here for the reference file rather than the handwritten set, the course-wise IGNOU solved assignment files are organised by programme and code on their own hub, which is the right place for that search. This page deals only with the handwritten hard copy.

The Ten BFO and BFOC Major Papers This Order Covers

The Discipline Specific Core of BAFFSM is ten papers of 6 credits each, and the July 2026 Common Prospectus lists them in section 5.20 under the heading for semesters one to six. The table below keeps the codes exactly as the prospectus prints them in one column and as the 2026 BAFFSM assignment booklet prints them in the next, because the two do not use the same form and you will meet both. Titles are the prospectus titles.

Swipe sideways on a phone to read the semester and credit columns.

The ten credits were added before this table was trusted: ten papers at 6 credits each make 60, which is exactly the figure the prospectus gives for the Discipline Specific Course category of its Bachelor of Arts Major and Honours programmes. The semester template for BAFFSM was checked the same way. Every one of its eight semesters totals 20 credits, the first six make the 120 needed for the degree with Major, and all eight make the 160 needed for Honours, with the certificate exit at 40 credits plus a 4-credit vocational course and the diploma exit at 80 credits plus another.

Two details in this list are easy to miss. BFO-018, Entrepreneurship in Small and Medium Business, is not unique to BAFFSM: the same prospectus places it among the Discipline Specific Courses of the Bachelor of Tourism and Travel Management as well, so a BFTTM learner and a BAFFSM learner can hold the same paper. And the first two Major papers are grouped under “1st and 2nd Semester” in the course table, while the programme template names DSC-1 in the first semester and DSC-2 in the second, which is why some learners are unsure whether BFO-003 or BFOC-101 comes first. For ordering it makes no difference; send whichever codes your registration shows.

Every paper in this table is covered by the handwritten service. The cover of the 2026 BAFFSM booklet names the same ten codes in its dispatch list, from BFO-003 through BFO-018, which is the clearest single confirmation that these are the papers IGNOU expects BAFFSM learners to submit.

Pool Papers a BAFFSM Learner Borrows from the BA Major List

The BAFFSM section of the prospectus prints its Major papers and then defers everything else. For the skill enhancement, interdisciplinary, ability enhancement, value-added, vocational and minor courses it sends you to pages 164 to 167, the common list for all Bachelor of Arts Major and Honours programmes. That deferral is disclosed here because it means your BAFFSM record will almost certainly carry codes with no BFO prefix at all, and the handwritten service covers those too at the same rate. The table reproduces the pool as that common list prints it.

The pool table is long; swipe sideways on a phone for the credit column.

How the pool fits a BAFFSM year is set by the programme template. BEVAE 181, Environmental Studies, is fixed as the first ability enhancement course in the second semester, and the second is a communication course in English, Hindi, Urdu or Sanskrit in the third. Skill enhancement courses fall in the first, fourth, fifth and sixth semesters, one in each. One interdisciplinary course of 6 credits and one value-added course of 6 credits sit in the first year. Three of the six minor slots are vocational and three are discipline minors, and the discipline minors must come from a subject other than your Major; the prospectus lists them by discipline, such as BPCM 161 to 163 in Psychology, BECM 161 to 163 in Economics or BHIM 161 to 163 in History. The arithmetic closes: 60 Major credits, 24 minor, 8 ability enhancement, 16 skill enhancement, 6 interdisciplinary and 6 value-added make the 120 of the three-year degree.

A pool paper has its own booklet, usually from the school that owns the subject rather than from Tourism and Hospitality, so its cut-off and code format can differ from the BFO papers. When you send a pool code, send the booklet or its first page with it, and the set is prepared against that paper, not against the BFO pattern.

Where the BAFFSM Prospectus, Booklets and Programme Page Disagree

Reading the July 2026 Common Prospectus, IGNOU’s BAFSM programme page, two families of 2026 assignment booklets and the term-end papers against one another turns up disagreements that no single document shows on its own. None of them changes what you submit, but several change what you type into a search box or say to your Study Centre, so each is listed with what to do about it.

The pattern behind most of these is ordinary: a programme relaunched under a new code, reusing the BFO numbering of the older one, with some documents updated and others not. The practical rule that follows is to trust your own registration record and the paper you download for your own code, and to use this page to recognise the variants rather than to choose between them.

30 April and 30 October: The SOTHSM Cut-Offs on a BFO Paper

Submission dates at IGNOU belong to the school that sets the paper, not to the university as a whole, and BAFFSM’s school prints its own pair. The 2026 BAFFSM booklet gives 30 April 2026 as the last date for learners heading into the June 2026 term-end examination and 30 October 2026 for those heading into the December 2026 examination, with the Study Centre coordinator named as the place of submission in both rows. As this page is written, 26 September 2026, the April date has passed and 30 October 2026 is the live one.

These are not the dates you will see on management programmes. The School of Management Studies prints 31 October and 30 April on its papers, a day later in October, and learners who copy a date from an MBA or MCOM forum can plan against the wrong one. Dates have also moved within this programme over time: the 2023 first-year BAFSM booklet printed 31 March 2024, its second-year counterpart printed 30 April 2024, and the 2025 booklet printed 30 October 2025 for the December 2025 examination. The only safe date is the one on the paper for your own code and cycle.

Assignments carry 30 per cent of the final course result and the term-end examination carries the remaining 70 per cent. That is why a missed cut-off costs more than a single paper: without the assignment on record, the course result has nothing to put in its assignment share. Papers are also replaced every cycle, so a set written against an older BFO-014 paper does not answer the current one. If IGNOU extends a cut-off, the extension is announced by IGNOU or your Regional Centre; the date printed on the booklet does not change by itself, and neither does this page until the notice is read.

How to Read BFO-014/TMA/2026 Before You Message

Every BFO paper prints an assignment code on its first page, and it has three parts. BFO-014 is the course code, TMA stands for Tutor Marked Assignment, and 2026 is the year of the paper. The code goes on your front page exactly as printed, which is one reason the free front page is laid out for it.

BAFFSM has three quirks worth knowing before you send your codes. The first is the year: files named 2026-27 on ignou.ac.in still print /TMA/2026 inside, and the code on the paper is the one to copy. The second is the zero padding, where a paper the prospectus calls BFO-07 prints as BFO-007 on the booklet and in its assignment code. The third concerns non-BFO papers: pool courses and the older computer papers use their own school’s pattern. The 2023 second-year BAFSM booklet, for instance, carried CIT-001 with the code CIT/CIT-001/ASSIGN/2023-24, a maximum of 25 marks and its own last date of 15 April 2024, none of which matched the BFO papers printed beside it.

When you message, send the code as your paper shows it, or a photo of the paper’s first page. That photo settles the year, the padding and the programme label at once, and the handwritten set is then prepared against exactly that paper.

A Facility Management Set in Your Own Hand

Send a photo of a page you have written yourself and the handwritten set is matched to your handwriting at no extra charge. For BAFFSM the match matters in a particular way, because several BFO questions invite layout that shows up in a hand: a BFO-008 question asks you to list the public areas of a supermarket or mall, a BFOC-101 term-end paper asks for classifications drawn from the National Building Code, and short-note questions split into lettered parts. The set follows the paper’s own structure, with headings and points laid out the way the question asks for them, in a hand that looks like the one on your sample.

Every set in one order is written to the same matched hand, so a learner submitting BFO-003 and BFOC-101 together does not hand in two sets that look as if two different people wrote them. Before any writing starts, a sample of the matched hand is shared with you for approval, so the risk of a hand you do not recognise sits before payment rather than after the packet arrives.

The Sample Photo for a BFO Order

A good sample is a full page of ordinary writing in the pen you normally use, photographed flat in daylight so the slant, spacing and letter shapes are clear. A page of your own notes from a BFO unit works well; a signature or a few words does not give enough to match. Send it on WhatsApp with your codes, and attach your handwriting photo for the BAFFSM set here.

English Medium, Any Cycle and the Old BAFSM Codes

The service covers all mediums IGNOU issues the TMA paper in, at the same price. For BAFFSM that means English, which is the only medium of instruction the prospectus gives the programme and the language of every BFO paper read for this page. A pool paper you chose in another language, such as the Hindi communication course BHDAE 182, is written in the language of that paper.

Any session is accepted, current cycle or older, including backlog courses, at the same ₹320 per subject. Backlogs are common in this programme because of the relaunch: learners admitted under the older BAFSM label studied a different set of BFO papers, several of which no BAFFSM booklet carries. IGNOU’s BAFSM programme page still lists them, and they are gathered in the table below with titles as that page prints them. The page leaves the credit field empty for the older BFO papers, so no credit figure is given here for them.

Swipe the table sideways on a narrow screen.

The 2026 BAFSM booklets still issue several of these, including BFO-001, BFO-002 and BEGLA-136, and the BFO-001 booklet prints the title in the singular, “Basics of Management”. BFO-013, Material Management, is a separate older paper from BFOC-102, Material Management in Facilities, in the current table, so check the prefix before you send it. If you are revising for one of these older papers as well as submitting it, the BFO-001 solved guess paper is on the store, and the two computer papers have their own CIT certificate books.

The Five Facts a BAFFSM Order Needs

An order is started from five facts, and none of them is a password, a portal login or a copy of your identity card.

1. The programme label on your record, BAFFSM or BAFSM, and your year of study, because the older label can mean a different BFO paper.
2. Every course code you need, written as your paper prints it, or a photo of each paper’s first page.
3. The cycle you are submitting for, meaning the June or December term-end examination the set is heading towards, or the older session if it is a backlog.
4. Your delivery pin code, so the delivery estimate can be confirmed before you pay.
5. A photo of a full page in your own handwriting, for the match.

Your enrolment number, Study Centre code and address go on the front page, which you fill in yourself, so they do not need to be shared to place the order. Message these five facts for a BAFFSM handwritten order and the reply confirms the codes, the price and the delivery estimate for your pin code.

Once the BAFFSM Packet Is in Your Hands

Open each set and read it against its question paper before anything else. You sign the declaration on the assignment cover page, so you should read and review the content before submitting it, and satisfy yourself that it represents your own understanding of the course. Reading five answers per paper is also the most direct revision available for the term-end examination, because the BFO term-end papers use the same shape as the assignments: the BFO-003 papers for June 2024, December 2024, June 2025 and December 2025 each tell candidates to answer any five questions in about 600 words, all carrying equal marks.

Then fill the front page with the details the booklet lists, sign it, place it on top of the answers with the question paper, and hand the set to your Study Centre coordinator. The booklet tells you to obtain a receipt and retain it, and to keep a photocopy of the assignment if you can. It also says the evaluated assignment is to be returned to you by the Study Centre and asks you to insist on this, and that the Study Centre sends the marks to the Student Evaluation Division at IGNOU in New Delhi. Keep the receipt until the marks appear on your record, since it is the proof that the set was handed in before the cut-off.

If a code you ordered turns out to have been replaced by a newer paper before you submit, the set written for the older paper will not match, which is why the cycle is confirmed at the time of ordering. Message the new code and it is handled as a fresh subject at the same rate.

Other Shelves BAFFSM Learners Open

Most BAFFSM learners who order a handwritten set are also preparing for the term-end papers in the same codes. The store keeps BAFSM guide books for the BFO papers, filed under the older programme label, and a shelf of solved guess papers filed under BAFSM for revision. Both serve BAFFSM learners because the BFO codes carry across.

The pool papers have their own shelves, and a BAFFSM record usually touches several of them: the ability enhancement course books for BEVAE 181 and the communication course, the skill enhancement course guides for the four skill papers, the vocational course books that sit in the minor slots, the value-added course books for the first-year 6-credit paper, and the interdisciplinary course books for the paper taken outside your Major.

If you are ordering for another programme as well, every other programme’s handwritten sets are listed on the category page. And if you would rather write the BAFFSM set yourself, the free step-by-step handwritten assignment guide on ignouproject.com walks through planning, layout and the front page.

BAFFSM Order Questions, Answered

What is the difference between a BAFFSM solved assignment and a BAFFSM handwritten assignment?

A solved assignment is a soft-copy reference file of model answers for one BFO or BFOC code and one session, which you read and then write from. A handwritten assignment is the answers written out by hand and submitted as a hard copy to your Study Centre coordinator. This page sells only the handwritten hard copy, at ₹320 per subject with courier included.

Can a printed BAFFSM solved assignment PDF be submitted at the Study Centre?

The BAFFSM booklet asks you to write down the final version for submission and send it to the Study Centre coordinator, and some Study Centre notices state that typed or printed assignments are not accepted. A printed reference file is not the written submission the booklet describes, so check your centre’s notice and submit a written set.

Does the BAFFSM booklet say assignments must be handwritten?

Not in a single stand-alone line, and it names no paper size. Its guidelines describe writing out the final version neatly and handing it to the coordinator against a receipt. The format rule you must meet is the one on your own Study Centre’s notice, which is why the handwritten set is written on paper rather than supplied as a file.

Is a solved file copied out by hand the same as a handwritten BAFFSM set?

Physically it can look the same, but the time is yours: a BFO paper needs five answers of about 600 words each, roughly 3,000 words per code. Either way, you sign the declaration on the cover page, so read the content and make sure it reflects your own understanding of the course before you submit.

What is the last date to submit BAFFSM assignments in 2026?

The 2026 BAFFSM booklet prints 30 April 2026 for the June 2026 term-end examination and 30 October 2026 for the December 2026 examination. As of 26 September 2026 the October date is the live one. These are School of Tourism and Hospitality Services Management dates, not the 31 October printed on management papers.

Is BFO-015 part of BAFFSM, and can it be ordered?

IGNOU has a live 2026 file for BFO-015, Managing Facilities-II (Accommodation Facilities), that prints “Programme: BAFFSM”, but the paper is absent from the prospectus’s BAFFSM table and from the file’s own cover list. If it is on your registration, it can be ordered at ₹320 like any other code; if it is not, you do not need it.

Papers labelled BAFSM rather than BAFFSM: can they be ordered here?

Yes. BAFSM and BAFFSM are the older and newer labels of the same Facility and Services Management programme, and IGNOU still issues booklets under both. Send the codes from your own papers, including older ones such as BFO-001, BFO-002 or BFO-004, at the same ₹320 per subject.

Why does the booklet say BFO-007 when the prospectus says BFO-07?

The prospectus drops the leading zero on several BAFFSM codes, while the booklets keep it, so BFO-07 and BFO-007 are the same Safety and Security in Facilities paper. Copy the form printed on your paper onto the front page.

How many questions does a BFO assignment ask you to answer?

Five. Each BFO paper read for this page prints ten questions, asks you to attempt any five, gives 20 marks to each and asks for about 600 words per answer. Questions with lettered short notes inside them, such as “any two of the following”, are answered to the number the question asks for.

Is the BAFFSM handwritten assignment available in Hindi?

The prospectus gives BAFFSM English as its only medium of instruction, and the BFO papers are in English. If you chose a pool paper issued in Hindi, such as BHDAE 182, that paper’s set is written in Hindi at the same rate.

Are BEVAE 181, BEGAE 182 and the skill enhancement papers covered for a BAFFSM learner?

Yes. BAFFSM takes its ability enhancement, skill enhancement, value-added, vocational, interdisciplinary and minor papers from the common BA Major list, and any of those codes on your record can be ordered at ₹320 per subject, prepared against that paper’s own booklet.

Can BFO-014 be ordered on its own, with nothing else?

Yes. There is no minimum order, so a single BFO paper is charged at the same ₹320 as each paper in a larger order, with courier included.

Which assignment code goes on the front page when the file is named 2026-27?

The code printed on the paper, which for the BAFFSM papers read for this page ends in /TMA/2026, for example BFO-014/TMA/2026. The file name on ignou.ac.in is not the assignment code.

What happens if IGNOU extends the 30 October 2026 date?

An extension comes from IGNOU or your Regional Centre as a notice; the date on the booklet stays as printed. Follow the notice for your enrolment, and tell Shri Chakradhar Publication which date you are working to when you order.

Can the fourth-year Honours papers be ordered?

Only once IGNOU issues them. The July 2026 prospectus gives the Honours year’s structure, DSC-11 to DSC-14 plus a 12-credit project or dissertation, but no course codes, and a handwritten set can only be prepared against a real paper.

Where Every Fact on This BAFFSM Page Comes From

From the IGNOU Common Prospectus, July 2026. The programme’s name, school, eligibility of 10+2, English medium, the semester template, the exit points at 40, 80, 120 and 160 credits, the ten Major codes with their titles and credits, and the common pool of ability enhancement, skill enhancement, interdisciplinary, value-added, vocational and minor courses on pages 164 to 167 all come from section 5.20 and the Bachelor of Arts Major and Honours pages. The Major credits were summed to 60 and the full template to 160 before any table was published here. Where the BAFFSM section defers to the common list, this page says so rather than presenting the pool as BAFFSM’s own.

From IGNOU’s live booklets and pages. The cut-off dates, the assignment code format, the question pattern and the cover dispatch lists come from the 2026 BAFFSM booklets for BFO-014 and the BFO-015 booklet issued under BAFFSM, read against the 2026 BAFSM booklet for BFO-008 and earlier BAFSM booklets from 2023 and 2025. The older codes and their titles come from IGNOU’s BAFSM programme page, and current papers for every code are on IGNOU’s assignment download service. The term-end question pattern comes from IGNOU’s own BFO-003 and BFOC-101 papers.

From Shri Chakradhar Publication’s own terms. The ₹320 rate, courier inside that rate, the free front page, the question paper copy, hard copy only, all mediums, any session including backlogs, handwriting matching at no charge, no minimum order and the absence of any promised delivery figure are the publisher’s commercial terms. They are not IGNOU’s terms and IGNOU has no part in them.

Written and reviewed by BK Sahni, Founder, Shri Chakradhar Publication Pvt. Ltd. and ignouproject.com, who has guided 5,00,000 students till date. ORCID 0009-0005-8092-459X. Published 26 September 2026. Last reviewed 26 September 2026 against the July 2026 Common Prospectus and the 2026 BAFFSM and BAFSM booklets. Next review due before the 30 October 2026 cut-off, and again when IGNOU issues the next BAFFSM booklet.

Important Notice

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Programme structures, course codes, submission dates and rules change, and only ignou.ac.in and your Regional Centre can confirm the current position for your enrolment.

You sign the declaration on the assignment cover page, so you should read and review the content before submitting it, and satisfy yourself that it represents your own understanding of the course.

No claim is made about the marks any assignment will receive, about how an evaluator will assess it, or about whether it will be accepted. Assignment evaluation is entirely a matter for IGNOU.