Abstract
Education is the major backbone of a country’s
growth and the maturity of the nation is understood from the quality of
educations it imparts to its population. The education sector in India has come
across many stages of development as well as faced crisis and challenges over
the period. Hence, the sector received high attention from the successive
governments since independence to date. The higher education sector of India
has undergone major interventions by the government with introduction major
governing institutions, implementing and monitoring bodies from central to the
local level, prioritising the use of Information Technology and Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) for dissemination of educational information and
better governance of the sector. Across the past twenty years the use of ICT
has fundamentally changed the practices and procedures of nearly all forms of
endeavour within business and governance. This paper attempts to highlight the
role of ICT in higher education in India and development vis-a-vis challenges
it has been interfacing is discussed in the article.
