Director of Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning, Swati Mujumdar suggested The only solution to get rid of over regulation in the system is to make the Distance Education Council the apex authority regulating distance education in the country.
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Act, 1985 formed the DEC, got a go-ahead to promote and monitor the quality of distance education in the country. Distance education is the most viable mode to spread education in different parts of the country.
The DEC is an authority under the IGNOU, without any power and they keep comparing other distance learning institutes with IGNOU. They lack manpower and there are so many pending proposals with them. The DEC is only aggrandising IGNOU, without knowing the needs of other institutes.”
Mujumdar said,that the government is not doing enough for the growth of distance learning.
Mujumdar also pointed out that If we want to extend the geographic reach of distance education, the DEC must have a separate status as the apex organisation for monitoring, accreditation and regulation of distance education, under the Ministry of Education, and not as a department under IGNOU.”
Mujumdar said, Reflecting on the educational bureaucracy at DEC, There are around 130 books, which we have designed and sent to DEC for inspection. For the last five years we have not received any reply from them.
As a representative of India and South Asia on the executive committee of Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU), Mujumdar said that the international council is of the opinion that DEC is not playing an active role in India.
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