The present text has been designed as a manual which looks into what entails distance education in India. The book makes an assessment of what it means avail of the distance education services available in India, how the process got implemented in the first place, and how distance education is shaping up to become the next great phase in the journey of Indian education. Focus has also been concentrated upon the challenges and issues that still belie distance education in India, and the book also incorporates evaluation of the various developmental programmes undertaken by the government regarding distance education in both urban as well as rural areas.