NMEICT Approved Major Projects and It’s Impacts in Indian Education System

Abstract

Government of India is initiating several remarkable measures to provide quality education systems  to Indian citizens and to compete with global education standards. One such measure is NMEICT  which was launched during the year 2009. This mission has crossed a decade what was its impact in  Indian Education system was not dealt. Hence this study was identified by the author and an  investigation was carried out to find the impact of NMEICT. The purpose of the study is to know that how far the scheme has performed from its inception and to map the schemes outcomes within five  years from 2014-2019. Case study method was adopted for this study and the schemes related data  pertaining to budget allocated for major projects and its performance was collected from the websites  of Government of India. Simple percentage analysis was applied and the results calculated. Based on  the results findings were drawn to know the extent which the scheme has achieved the goals in  imparting teaching and learning process. It was found that 60% of the entire amount was spent for  providing connectivity to colleges and universities for Internet access which is the basic  infrastructure which was expected by most of the higher educational institutes was fulfilled by this mission. 40% fund was spent for developing quality e-content, DTH Educational channels and for  producing low cost access devices. From this study it was found that 49 major projects have been  approved and its impacts are described. This study concludes that this scheme has achieved its goal in  implementing the basic infrastructure, e-content development and promoting the usage of content  among academicians.