E-Learning Is A Government Induced Failure In India

Online education requires both state of the art technologies as well as effective laws. Even if we have all the favorable condition still there may be technical glitches or legal wrangles. But what would happen if we have inadequate technical capabilities coupled with criminal friendly cyber laws? The net result would be a demise of the e-learning and online education capabilities. The same is happening in India due to myopic insight and criminal friendly nature of government of India.

Firstly there was a failure of the online examination conducted by IGNOU and now we witnessed collapse of Common Admission Test (CAT) exams. This shows that India is still not ready for online education and e-learning in India.

This is, however, not the real problem as a graver problem is still awaiting for us. None other than the government of India (GOI) can be held responsible for this fiasco. The GOI amended the sole cyber law of India, i.e. Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act, 2000) through Information Technology Act, 2008 (IT Act, 2008). From here starts the real trouble and demise of Indian online educational system.

According to Praveen Dalal, the leading Techno-Legal Expert of India and Managing Partner of Perry4Law the IT Act, 2008 made almost all (except few like cyber terrorism) the possible cyber crimes “bailable”. This has made India a “Safe Heaven” for cyber criminals. Think about a situation where the online exam or entrance is going on and someone collapses the servers through hacking, virus introduction, etc. Even if the police is able to trace such culprit, he would be released on bail. This practically means that a competitor can create havoc with the online education system of another with no deterrent at all, says Dalal.

It is clear that Indian online education system is very bad in shape. On the one hand we lack technical capabilities whereas on the other hand cyber criminals are on a ride without any deterrent law to desist them from attacking the server and other computer resources. If the GOI still does not wake up, it must forget about attracting foreign universities and their opening of campuses in India. In fact, such foreign universities must not open any centre in India till India is ready, both technically as well as legally.

SOURCE: GROUND REPORT

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Law is an ongoing process and so is its adjudication process. This mandates that lawyers and judges must keep themselves abreast of the latest and contemporary legal arenas. Globally, cyber law and other technology laws have posed difficulties before the lawyers and judges to understand and apply these technology laws effectively.

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According to Praveen Dalal the proposed opening of E-Court in Delhi High Court in the Month of December, 2009 could be good step in the right direction provided it is not another court in the “papers only”. He informed that India has been claiming opening of e-courts since 2003 and till now not even a single e-court is operational in India despite contrary claims. No court is e-court till cases can be filed and contested in an online environment and till now India has no such capabilities, says Dalal.

No numbers of judicial reforms can succeed till the judicial officers are well versed in contemporary laws and technology laws are proving this concept. It is high time that India must do the best it could do in this regard other than opening e-courts on papers only.

SOURCE: MERINEWS