The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in India. The first-hand experience of teaching online in the covid-19 pandemic along with conceptual and theoretical issues of online education has been explored in this paper. Online education can be a tool to improve access to higher education as well as can also be used for improving the quality of higher education. Like traditional face-to-face classroom teaching, it also has multiple issues. Paper has tried to explore the perspectives of different stakeholders regarding online education in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs).