The use and impact of ICT for HEP in India

Higher Education Program (HEP) is the back bone for progress of every country as it produces the required trained manpower for industry and academia. For industrial development the quality of the manpower is very critical being the direct proportional for the quality of the product. Similarly in academia the trained and well qualified people can only produces the quality manpower. This can be well judged by the progress studies of the countries like Japan, Korea, USA etc. Seeing the importance of the HEP for countries growth and development, it is very critical to have a well tested procedure as a system which guaranties the production of well qualified quantum of human resource with well defined levels of threshold in terms of knowledge level required for the specialized professional requirements in the different industrial setup. In this paper authors have tried to study the HEP process in context of its appropriateness in India. The role of ICT in the HEP program has been analyzed in terms of its effectiveness in imparting the desired goal and training the human resource to the level, where they become industry acceptable/ employable. From the study, areas hindering the quality product as output of the HEP system have been stipulated and highlighted. The area where the ICT has penetrated the HEP system in favoring the HEP goal has been pointed out. Some novel methods and steps have been proposed at the end to get to the bottom of the areas where ICT usage is still required to assist in ever developing/ evolving HEP system working under different constraints in Indian scenario.