Education is the only tool which can lead a nation towards progress. Every nation is trying to educate its individual. The advancement of any country is associated with education. Only educated and skillful population can make the country prosperous. With the increase in the population and needs of the people, formal system failed to cater the demands of the people. As such a need for an alternate method has generally emerged (Jumani, N. 2007). There was need for alternate ways and means. The main factors involved in teaching learning phenomenon were time, place and circumstances. The process that connects learners with a system of learning resources designed to meet the educational needs of a learner, to create and provide access to learning when time and distance, or both separate the source of information and the learner is said to be Distance education. Thus the student being educated by this process is known as distance learner. To meet the needs of the time the concept of distance learning appears. Throughout the world the aim of distance education is to educate the individuals at all levels. In beginning distance education was criticized, but with the passage of time it gains more and more importance.