Distance education not only caters to the needs of those students who are unable to enroll into a formal stream of education but also fulfills the need of lifelong learning for working professionals. Distance Education is the most desirable way of education for working professionals and discontinued students. Distance education provides platform to students to continue education instead of being dropout from the regular education system due to lack of resources. The purposive of every education is to obtain factual knowledge and employment and distance education is not an exception. The distance education is a vital tool to improve the productivity of already working people and providing them chance to proceed further in their career. Young universities like Indira Gandhi National Open University has registered tremendous growth rate in compare to universities like University of Delhi one of the oldest university in India. This is because of the demand of distance education programmes.
Distance education can be defined as an education in which the role of educator is replaced by other means of education like Self Learning Materials (SLMs) for self-study. The education providing body may be situated far away from the education seeker. This feature of distance education is making it suitable for working professionals, education seekers who do not have opportunity to study in conventional education system due to any of the possible reasons.
In India there is a great shortage of educational institutions, as per the report by MHRD we require establishing 1500 universities to cater the educational needs of our large population compare to existing around 600 universities. Some of the state governments have established private universities but then too this demand is quite big. Due to this reason only 10% of the students attended class 5th level reaches to the master’s degree. The condition of doctoral programme is even shoddier.
Advent of distance education proves to be the medicine of dieses. Distance education not only facilitated people to study but also help in improving the productivity of nation. All over India there are many universities offering distance education. In India all the distance education degrees which are approved by the Joint Committee of UGC, AICTE & DEC are considered equivalent to the relevant regular degrees for all purposes including post & services to the central government.
The World Education Mission is offering Distance Education Programmes recognized by “Swami Vivekanand Subharti University”, Meerut. This University is the First State University of Uttar Pradesh, which is recognized by Distance Education Council on the recommendation of Joint Committee of UGC, AICTE & DEC. As per Govt. of India Gazette Notification No. 44, F.No.18-15/93-TD.V/TS-IV dated 01.03.1995, the degrees awarded by the University through distance education stand automatically recognized for all purposes, including employment to posts and services under Central Government.
