Digital Infrastructure: Changing the Educational Landscape in India

In the human history as jotted by historian states that it is the human endeavor since last 3 millenniums to make human work life more earlier, faster and connected. Grey Revolution better known as Software Revolution that emerged in the late eighties is disruptive though slowly but steadily. Today India has positioned itself as an epicenter in the transformative digital technology field. Edutech and other digital technologies, has the breakthrough changes in academic field. The pace at which the digital technologies are evolving since last couple of years, has developed the new digital economy called as Data Economy which is impacting every sphere of academic life, be it student data processing, servicing the millions of students in admission to examinations, processing scholarships at one go, hybrid interactive education, to name a few. Starting from course structure to content development and the delivery of content in the classroom or via digital platforms, has taken a paradigm shift. NEP 2020 focus on wide variety of Government of India's push for Digital Transformation and building the Public Digital Infrastructure in academic field by various initiatives like MOOC, SWAYAM, NADA, STAR, NPTEL, IMPRINT, RUSA, etc are making big positive impact. This paper throws lights on the positive impact of Edutech Technologies in Gujarat, amongst MBA, BBA and BCA college students of North Gujarat in meeting their various academics needs. Our research data collected and hence processed shows that students liked the hybrid channel of education delivery i.e. mix of classroom and also the use of digital platform. Students and other stake holders too, consider digital edutech platforms has less negative impact on Mother Earth in the broad scenarios which helps in meeting the ESG imperatives (Environmental, Social and Governance) of SDGs of United Nation Organisation.