Directorate of Distance Education

To facilitate private candidates at Graduate and Master level who can not afford the facility of getting education as regular students.
To narrow the quality gap between private and regular students.
To increase the success ratio of private students in the examinations and to ultimately improve the opportunities of employment for them.
To build capacity of large Public Sector Universities to deliver quality education to private students.
To build capacity of Universities to deliver material for private students.
To streamline administrative procedures for provision of quality education to private students.