In any educationalsystem, students are the most important stakeholders. All the activities of any, educational institution should revolve around providing quality education to the students. Open distance education system is no exception for this. In fact quality education and quality service are more important in open distance education systems, since the students and the institution are separated in this system. Quality is an outcome of continuous pursuit. There are many ways to improve the quality in an organisation. Quality circle is one of the important ways in impioving the quality through the participation of people. Student Participation Circle (SPC) is an extension of quality circles concept to an educational institution and involving students as partners in improving the quality. This paper is an attempt to apply student participation circles concept to the open distance educati~nin stitutions.