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Unit-30: Open and Distance Education

world, many government and private institutions, universities and other institutions successfully drew Notes
the attention of students through distance education.

Self-Assessment
1. Fill in the blanks:
(i) Today, distance education is very ........................... in the world.
(ii) ........................... science has a great impact on distance education.
(iii) Today, distance education is going up ahead on the path of ........................... as an important
means of education.
(iv) Distance education is not a new ...........................
(v) Formally, distance education can be regarded as born in ...........................

30.6 Growth and Development of Distance Education in India

Although distance education in India was debuted in the 1960, but at that time seventh decade there
were only four universities which were partly providing this type of distance education. In 1968, Patiala
and in 1969, university of Merrut and Maisur, by the period of 1970 to 1980, several correspondence
institutions were established by 19 regional universities. During this period, both the diploma and
degree courses were provided by means of distance education.
Punjab and Himachal Pradesh in 1971, Andhra and Venkteshwar in 1972, Hyderabad and Patna in 1974,
Bhopal, Utkal and Mumbai in 1975, Madurai, Kamraaj, Jammu Kashmir and Rajasthan in 1976, Usmania
and Keral in 1977, and Allahabad and Mumbai in 1978, Annamalai and Udaipur in 1979 established
several educational units. In other words, distance education developed in the field of higher education

in 1970–80.
In the decade of 1970, distance education has been related to the formal education. Therefore distance
education started working under the formal universities.
In 1982, an open university was established in the field of distance education in Andhra Pradesh.

In 1985, Indian government established Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), which was
very important in the development of distance education. Under Indian government, several open
universities were established in various states like Maharashtra, Kerala, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh etc.
Rajasthan government established an open university in Kota.
In the sequence of open universities in states, Utter Pradesh government established Government
Purushottam Das Tondan Open University in 1999. It is also expected in the field of distance education,

this meet the test and will establish a new dimension in the field of distance education.

30.7 Growth of Admission in Distance Education

It is clear from the above discussion that distance education is moving ahead on the path of progress.
Let’s analyse the progress of growth of admissions in distance education related to this.
As written above, although distance education in India was debuted in the 1960s, by the seventh
decade, there was a reasonable progress in the growth of admissions of students. In most of universities,
correspondence programmes started in institutions. In 1975–76, about 65,000 students were admitted in
the field of distance education. In three year, this number became double 1,33,459 in 1978–79.

In next nine years this became thrice 4,02,720 in 1987–88.

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