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The paper focuses on improving the quality of Higher Education through online mode by identifying the practical issues faced by students and teachers working in Mahabubabad District's rural Government Degree colleges. Students and teachers' perceptions of online learning and teaching, their concentration, the LMS platforms they use, and the government's support for rural colleges to improve quality are all investigated. Both students and teachers are in the process of learning and are willing to progress to the online mode of education. We chose rural Mahabubabad colleges for our case study because they are going to experience a digital divide. The lack of technical skills resulting from a lack of interaction with teachers has become a problem in online learning. The paper also discusses the strategies to be used when going online and makes a few recommendations for improving the quality of online education after the paradigm shift from offline to online. The study aims to determine how Mahabubabad rural degree colleges managed to provide knowledge during the omicron pandemic, when degree colleges were forced to adapt their educational processes to exclusively online teaching and learning in a short period of time. We began to look at students' perceptions forward into online learning, their ability to absorb information, and their use of E-learning platforms in this regard. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to conduct an online survey. From the 17th to the 30th of January 2022, data was collected including over 100 students and teachers at four degree colleges in the Mahabubabad District. According to the research results, rural degree colleges in Mahabubabad were not prepared for purely online learning. Omicron has made it mandatory for students and teachers to finish all of their online activities. Student-centered activities are included in the online mode, which is flexible due to the use of emails and chats. Students are being reached out to by video chatting teachers. Time management is required in the online mode. Control over content, and teachers must research the best ways to deliver content that will result in a positive outcome