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The '''Distance Education Bureau''' ('''DEB''') is a bureau of the [[University Grants Commission (India)|UGC]] based in [[New Delhi]], [[India]], in charge of regulating [[distance education]] in India.<ref>{{cite web |title=Distance Education Bureau (DEB) |url=https://deb.ugc.ac.in/ |website=deb.ugc.ac.in |access-date=10 February 2020}}</ref> It was established in 2012, replacing the [[Distance Education Accrediting Commission|DEAC]], an organisation that was responsible for [[Open supported learning|open learning]] and distance education since 1985.<br />
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== History ==<br />
Distance education in India started in 1962 with a pilot project correspondence courses, which led to the birth of [[University of Delhi]]'s School of Correspondence Courses and Continuing Education (now [[School of Open Learning|DU-SOL]]). The success of the project led to introduction of correspondence course institutes (later renamed as directorates or centres of distance education) in more universities. In 1982 [[Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University]] was established, the first [[open university]] in India. This was followed by the establishment of [[Indira Gandhi National Open University]] at the national level in 1985.<ref name=what>{{cite web |title=Distance Education What? Why? How? |url=https://www.ugc.ac.in/deb/pdf/ODLwhatwhyandhow.pdf |website=ugc.ac.in |access-date=10 February 2020}}</ref> Although the [[statutory authority]] for regulating higher education in India is the [[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]] (UGC), the responsibility for promotion and coordination of open and distance learning (ODL) was bestowed on IGNOU under the ''Indira Gandhi National Open University Act (1985)''.<ref name="EvansHaughey2008">{{cite book|author1=Terry Denis Evans|author2=Margaret Haughey|author3=David Murphy|title=International Handbook of Distance Education|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bboryEytOs0C&pg=PA727|access-date=31 May 2013|year=2008|publisher=Emerald Group Publishing|isbn=978-0-85724-515-1|page=72–}}</ref><ref name="Singh2004">{{cite book|author=Amrik Singh|title=Fifty Years of Higher Education in India: The Role of the University Grants Commission|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zX_GewVIXDoC&pg=PA16|access-date=31 May 2013|year=2004|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-0-7619-3216-1|pages=16–}}</ref> The Distance Education Council (DEC) was set up by IGNOU in 1991 and became operational in 1992.<ref name=what/> with the [[Vice Chancellor]] of IGNOU acting as the ''ex officio'' chairperson of DEC.<ref name="GoelGoel2010">{{cite book|author1=Aruna Goel|author2=S. L. Goel|title=Encyclopaedia of higher education in the 21st century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Cllr5Zi5tcC&pg=PA161|access-date=31 May 2013|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Deep & Deep Publications|isbn=978-81-7629-584-0|page=161}}</ref><br />
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In August 2010, the [[Ministry of Human Resource Development]] (MHRD) constituted a committee for investigating distance education standards in India. The committee recommended the creation of a new regulatory body, the Distance Education Council of India (DECI). It also recommended that until such body is established, the DEC may be shifted to UGC. On 29 December 2012, the MHRD published an Order transferring the regulatory authority of distance education from IGNOU to UGC.<ref name=what/> In May 2013 IGNOU dissolved the DEC and the UGC took over the entire assets and manpower,<ref>{{cite news | title = Now, UGC takes over Distance Education Council | date = 5 Jun 2013 | url = http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-06-05/news/39763195_1_ugc-distance-education-council-odl | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130615061313/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-06-05/news/39763195_1_ugc-distance-education-council-odl | url-status = dead | archive-date = 15 June 2013 | work= [[The Times of India]] | access-date = 2013-06-05}}</ref> establishing the Distance Education Bureau.<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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