Impact of COVID-19 On Education Sector in India
Akshay Sharma, Aditya Jain, Abhimanyu Kumar · 2021
COVID-19 pandemic has affected human life in a very drastic way. COVID-19 has a severe impact oneducation sector too because of the COVID-19 pandemic all educational organizations like schools,coaching, colleges etc. are closed temporarily it has a high impact on education system. Thesenationwide closures have impacted millions of students. Most of the countries around the world havetemporarily shut down all the Educational Organizations in order to prevent the diffusion of coronavirus. In India around 32crore learners stop going to school, college and coaching. The actuality ofseveral countries is that they have to close their Educational Organizations and had to cancel theirexams due to this a huge distress is created among students and teachers. COVID-19 pandemic hasforced all the educational organizations to flourish themselves and to use digital interfaces andproficiencies which have not been used earlier. Digital learning makes education more commoner andapproachable. Digital learning is also advantageous for students with learning deficiencies.Digitalizing in education system also changes the old method of classroom teaching now studentsrequire mobile phone and an excellent internet connection to take their classes they didn’t have to goanywhere in order to attend their classes. Now a days classes are being conducted on digital platformslike Microsoft teams, Google classroom, zoom, Google meet, etc. The main motive of this paper is torecognize the positive and negative side of COVID-19 pandemic. The paper will try to find out theways that will help the education sector to get back their previous glory and necessary place as before.