IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON EDUCATION IN INDIA

The nationwide outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has caused a massive as well as downward spiral in the world economy and also adversely caused an enormous impact on the higher education system. The immediate closure of schools, colleges and universities as a social distancing measure to prevent community transmission of the pandemic has shifted the concept of physical classes to online learning systems. Due to the outbreak of pandemic the focus on online learning is majorly emphasized but the limitations, accessibility and affordability attached to the e-learning is hampering many of the students. The pandemic has exposed the positive as well as negative effects of online learning on the primary as well as higher education system and the need for more training and practice of educators/professors in digital domain to adapt to the rapidly changing educational system of the world. It is evidently observed today that the post lockdown situation, is majorly focusing on eLearning and virtual education as an integral part of the primary and higher educational system. The primary as well as higher educational institutions and universities needs to plan and channelize the post-lockdown educational reforms and research strategies to ensure optimum learning outcomes and standards of educational quality.