A study to identify poverty as a key factor to less enrolments in higher education in West Bengal: E-learning and e-monitoring as best way out to increase GER

In accordance with the survey data of higher education department of West Bengal, the gross enrollment ratio of West Bengal in Higher education is only 26.23%. Major parts of the drop out students are showing reason of poverty even while making them understood about the effectiveness of higher education through e-learning. In this paper an approach is followed through which poverty is determined as a significant factor along with other factors in less enrollments in higher education in West Bengal and allocation of funds through e-monitoring based on web enabled applications may be one of the best solutions to remove poverty so that the already dropped out candidates or candidates just going to be dropped out can be lessen and gradually the GER (gross enrollment ratio) in higher education of West Bengal can be increased.