Impact of Covid-19 on Education Sector

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected education and educational systems around the world. Governments around the world have decided to temporarily close educational institutions to reduce the spread of COVID-19. As of 30 September 2020, approximately 1.077 billion learners are currently affected by school closures due to the pandemic. According to UNICEF monitoring, the effect of the lockdown was on about 61.6 percent of the world's population. Online education is being seen as a compulsion in Corona. There is no comparison between physical school and class. Online education cannot replace the school classroom at the level of learning. Online education is far out of reach of rural India and non-practical.

Crores of students of the country are not Nobel laureate poets, writers, painters, philosopher Rabindranath Tagore, who will get their scholarship from the whole world through home education. While the health services infrastructure is crumbling in the service of the increasing number of infected, the education system is battered by the lockdown.

The most dangerous is for the students when the educational institutions are opened, but due to the closure, many colleges and institutes are on the verge of ending their existence.

Online education is also reaching only a handful of children in states where children have a broadband network of the Internet along with smart mobile phones. In most of the villages of India, there is no bond band, in many villages even electricity is not available to every household.

Many students from India go to foreign universities to pursue higher education. Some of them take education on scholarship and most of them at the expense of their parents. According to a United Nations report, the economic consequences of the coronavirus have deepened the crisis of about 24 million students leaving their studies forever next year.

Around 94% of students worldwide are affected by the closure of educational institutions. What is worrying is that according to the United Nations, about 99% of students in low- and low-middle-income countries are currently not getting an education.

We are facing some problem due to covid-19.They are-

• Virtual education new practice for children and teachers
• The gap between boys and girls deepened
• Online education a compulsion in the Corona
• Online education far out of reach of rural India
• How friendly for girls in India?
• Girl’s victim of girl child marriage

Virtual education new practice for children and teachers

India is at number two in the case of Coronavirus infection. As a precautionary school-college are currently closed. On the other hand, there should not be much impact on studies, so children are being given online education. Virtual education is undoubtedly emerging and emerging as a new practice for both children and teachers in itself.

The gap between boys and girls deepened

The gap between boys and girls deepened due to virtual education. This difference is being called Digital Divide. The digital divide is the gap between people that is related to the availability of the Internet. Digital learning is increasing the digital divide. Children who are in villages, in mountains, or in any remote area, where there is no electricity, internet, will not be able to study there.

Online education a compulsion in the Corona

Online education is being seen as a compulsion in Corona. It can be said that this is the need of the hour. In the event of maintaining physical distance during the epidemic, online education has been the only right. However, it has no comparison with physical school and class. Online education cannot replace the school classroom at a good learning level.

Online education far out of reach of rural India

But on the other hand, online education is far out of reach of rural India and unpractical. It is also true that comparing the classroom with the online education system will affect the education of the majority of the children of India. It is difficult to mobilize adequate resources and internet data for the children of the disadvantaged community studying in government schools.

How friendly for girls in India

A report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India, 2019 states that only 67 percent of men and 33 percent of women in India use the Internet. In rural India, this ratio is more imbalanced. Here only 28 percent of women use the Internet as compared to men. In such a situation, it is clear that providing smartphones and internet to little girls is much more difficult.

Girl’s victim of girl child marriage

The United Nations Population Fund estimates that in the coming 10 years, more than 13 million girls will be married off at an early age. Consider that this figure is different from that figure, which tells how many girls have been victims of girl child marriage even before Corona.

The Government of India has been arranging quality education for students through important schemes, such as free and compulsory primary education for children in the age group of 6-14 years through the 86th Constitutional Amendment under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. To be done, imparting skill development education for the socio-economic empowerment of adolescent girls and women in the 'Tejashwi' program, setting up of 'Higher Education Funding Agency' (HEFA), 'Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan' (RUSA), focused on the quality of education. Under which the budget amount has increased three times, the 'Knowledge Involvement in Research Advancement through Nurturing' scheme, etc. to address various issues and challenges related to gender equality in the science and technology sector.

This time the crisis is formidable, the government will have to take concrete initiatives to help the students continue their education.

In the new education policy 2020, the government has set a target to provide quality education in institutions and technical colleges across the country, for which the colleges will have to adopt the latest technology. This allows them to compete with the best colleges in the world. There is a lack of many facilities in the Indian education system, which the government should help to overcome, only then the students will get quality education.

While recovering from the pandemic, the government will have to solve the problems of teachers, educational institutions, and students, only then the future of India's bright will be secure. With this, along with continuing their studies, the pressure of fees and job will also reduce on them.

Government of the people, for the people, and by the people is the priority in Indian democracy, so it is the responsibility of the Government of India to protect the people from the epidemic and continue the education of the students with their survival. Only then the future of the youth will be safe.