Delhi University to Use AWS Services for Admission and Examination Processes; Check Details Here

New Delhi: Delhi University will be using Amazon Web Services for Online Admission and Examination Purposes. So far, more than 200 universities and HEIs in India have already adopted Samarth eGov including more than 40 central and state universities, and more than 100 colleges.

Amazon's cloud service division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has announced that the University of Delhi (DU) is using its services for the wider adoption of Samarth eGov - an open source programme to digitise higher education institutions (HEIs) in the country. The Samarth eGov suite provides more than 40 software modules covering academics, administration, student services, human resources, governance, accounting, and finance.

The company explains that the Samarth eGov portal helps education institutions enhance the "speed and quality of education services to offer a more reliable experience to students". The portal also aims to move away from paper-based and traditional third-party enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

AWS claims that this source has been adopted by at least 200 universities and HEIs in India, including more than 40 central and state universities, and more than 100 colleges. The company plans to cover more than 500 HEIs by 2023.

The cloud service by Amazon is also aimed to boost admission processes and manage examinations. For instance, the Samarth eGov handled more than 663,000 student applications from January through July 2022. However, the DU has not offered details about the future of existing platforms that handle these processes.

Speaking more about the development, Rahul Sharma, Regional Head, Public Sector, said in a release, "We congratulate the University of Delhi for embarking on and implementing Samarth eGov, a pioneering initiative in India's higher education sector, and addressing common challenges faced by education institutions".

It also uses 'Elastic Load Balancing', which is designed to distribute network traffic to improve application scalability, and is critical for managing high workloads during events such as admissions and examinations.

This move will help the universities to save at least four billion trees, said Rahul Sharma, regional head, public sector – AISPL, AWS India and South Asia.

“The education sector in India is adapting to the post-pandemic era where student expectations are rising and changing, and the engagement between students, administration, and faculty are increasingly expected to be digitally-driven,” Sharma added.

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