100 varsities to run e-degree courses from May 30: HRD

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday announced for promotion of digital-education in India in a post-coronavirus era and announced ‘PM eVIDYA’ programme for multi-mode access to e-education under which top 100 universities would be permitted to start online courses by May 30.

The Finance Minister said the HRD Ministry has allowed top 100 Indian universities to start online degree courses automatically from 30 May. These universities need not to seek any fresh approval from the education regulators to offer online degree courses. HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank thanked the Centre for the announcement and said this will be a great step towards e-learning.

“Technology-driven education to be the focus- PM eVIDYa programme for multi-mode access to digital/online education to be launched immediately. Top 100 universities will be permitted to automatically start online courses by 30th May 2020”, Sitharaman said.