Leveraging digital tech to take education to higher level

Immediately after attaining independence, India chose to focus on providing Higher Education opportunities within the country and as a result managed to establish institutions of repute that have successfully attracted top quality minds both in terms of students as well as teachers. However after more than six decades of independence, the country is continuing to cope with the challenge of providing access to quality higher education to the growing number of young people of this country. It is unfortunate that there is not a single Indian university among the top 200 global universities as per 2014 QS ranking. At the same time, our country needs to provide opportunity to access higher education for additional 10 million students, taking the current GNER (Gross National Enrolment Ratio) of 18.1% to 30% by 2020. Although the number of Universities has increased 34 times from 20 in 1950 to 677 in 2014, in order to meet the GNER goals for 2020, we would need to create almost twice the number of seats currently available in the university system.
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