ON LINE EDUCATION IN NORTH EAST INDIA: AN OVERVIEW

This paper is intended to address the various issues pertaining to its background, development and training. An attempt has been made to describe the need for education, its challenges and training. Education is a process which begins at birth and mother is the first teacher. It starts with manual skill, intellectual capacity and social awareness learnt by visual capacity and instructions. For the sustainable development of any nation, higher education is a major instrument for change. It has the important task of preparing leaders for different walks of life, i.e. social, political, cultural, scientific and technological. Today education is not restricted to classroom only but is being imparted by latest communication technology, one of the fastest spreading ways of online education. One view, which represents official position, advocates the privatization, commercialisation and deregulation of education. To them, everything that shines is private. The paper critically examines the privatisation and its impact on inclusive education in North East India with special reference