India is a very large country and has a multilayered formal type of education system. This type of education system includes primary, secondary schools and graduation, post-graduation to diploma courses. There are about 260 million students in India which are enrolled in about 1.5 million schools and 39 thousand colleges. Colleges and universities cater about 27.5 million under graduate and 4 million post graduate students.
India is from those country which are developing with exponential rate in terms of technology. Population of about 1.3 billion people with high speed internet and smartphone and smart gadgets has the most technology driven persons. Introduction of new technology has led to enhance more opportunities and acceptance of alternative modes of education or e-learning. Earning online certificates and learning new skills is developing very much in Indian online education industry. The demand of online education is increasing as students who require focused and individual learning are consuming a lot from e-learning.
With low infrastructure and larger students base helps the economy boost. There is 175% increase in the education cost from the year 2008-2014.the growing job opportunities seeks relevant industry training. From 19191 to 2013 there have been increase in eligible working population by 300 million and employed by 140 million.
If we talk about the disadvantages of online education they are less as compared to the online education. Like distraction chances, fraud online courses and websites, lab and workshops courses not available etc. putting it together India has a great opportunities in online education sector. Also the availability of technologies encourage this more. Online education is very effective in areas where there is lack of education and its resources.
By Poonam
Street Paradise 
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