Higher education is assuming an upward significance for developing countries like India, which is experiencing service-led growth. But from the last two years, we are facing an unprecedented health emergency due to covid-19 pandemic and it has radically disrupted all the sectors including higher education in India. Indian Government has declared lockdown and all the educational institutions have been closed to break the spread chain of the disease all over the country. The lockdown destroyed the schedules of every student. Though it is an exceptional situation in the history of education, Covid-19 created an opportunity to come out of the rigorous classroom teaching model to a new rea of digital model. In order to maintain continuity, higher education institutions have managed positively all the teaching-learning activities, examination assessment activities through online mode. Delivery of classes through online medium has been a recent modification brought out by the education system in India. Attitude of teachers and students have been completely changed towards information and communication technology and it has been made to invent various innovative mode of teaching learning process in higher education. This research paper will assess and analysis the impact of covid-19 on higher education in India. Furthermore, it would also highlight the strategic measures taken by higher educational institutions to ensure seamless teaching-learning activities and academic services during this crisis.

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Keywords: Assessment, AISHE, Covid-19, MHRD, MOOC, UGC, Service-Led Growth.