Effect Of Covid-19 On Indian Education System

Abstract

Indian education system is still not mature at both the urban and rural area. Midday meal is the program organized to attract the students to get education. Under these circumstances government-imposed nation wise lockdown on March 25th, 2020 to combat COVID-19, has made severe impact on the education system. India has the world’s second largest school system, after China. According to UNESCO, 63 million teachers were affected in 165 countries. A total of 1.3 billion learners around the world were not able to attend schools or universities, and approximately 320 million learners are affected in India alone. It has changed the traditional education system to the educational technologies model in which teaching and assessments are conducted online. Both the positive and negative impacts of COVID-19 on Indian Education system are observed. This paper aims to identify the difficulties and challenges faced by teachers during online teaching and the impact of COVID pandemic on Indian education system. Also, various concerns related to online education are illustrated and suggestions for government, stakeholders, and teachers are also given.