ABSTRACT
The National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), an apex body representing the industry was enthusiastic in its response to Digital India programme that aims to connect all gram panchayats by broadband and internet with a view to transform India into a connected knowledge economy. Distance education initiatives in the past focused on initially hiving off a small unit in conventional universities and subsequently buoyed by the response and the revenue models they branched out as independent units. Digital India is reaffirmation of India's continued faith and expertise in harnessing information and communications technology (ICT) for improving the living conditions. In higher education (HE) alone, the concurrent nature of the subject with regard to policies at the central and state governments' level makes any one approach unviable. The Indian higher education system has undergone massive expansion to become the largest in the world enrolling over 70 million students.
