Abstract: Learning packages in ODL need lo be self-instructional to a high degree requiring minimum intervention in order to achieve the goal of demoeratising higher education. The packages should also be designed in such a way that learning can take place with the use of available and accessible tools and technologies. This paper suggests that in a diverse country like India where accessibility to institutional infrastructure and technologies varies a great deal, uniform learning package being used at present which can only be delivered through institution based centres, have deprived'people of many regions from

 the benefit of ODL. The authors also suggest different ways in which, by using tools and technologies accessible in diffe'rent regions in the country, learning packages can be modified and made more self-instructional. Notwithstanding the digital divide of the people, this would help to bridge the inequity in this regard, increase flexibility and openness and improve access and quality of ODL in india