The success of the project led to introduction of correspondence course institutes (later renamed as directorates or centres of distance education) in more universities.
[2] Although the statutory authority for regulating higher education in India is the 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).
[2] with the Vice Chancellor of IGNOU acting as the ex officio chairperson of DEC.[5] In August 2010, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) constituted a committee for investigating distance education standards in India.
On 29 December 2012, the MHRD published an Order transferring the regulatory authority of distance education from IGNOU to UGC.
[2] In May 2013 IGNOU dissolved the DEC and the UGC took over the entire assets and manpower,[6] establishing the Distance Education Bureau.