TEACHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS AND CHALLENGES OF TEACHING LEARNING, EXTENSION AND RESEARCH ACTIVITY

The COVID-19 pandemic is considered as the most crucial global health calamity of the century and

the greatest challenge that the humankind faced since the 2nd World War. In December 2019, a new
infectious respiratory disease emerged in Wuhan, Hubei province, China and was namd by the world Health Organization as COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019). A new class of corona virus, known as
SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) has been found to be responsible for
occurrence of this disease. As far as the history of human civilization is concerned there are instances
of severe outbreaks of diseases caused by a number of viruses. According to the report of the World
Health Organization (WHO as of April 18 2020), the current outbreak of COVID -19, has effective over  2164111 people and killed more than 146,198 people in more than 200 countries throughout the world.
Till now there is no report of any clinically approved antiviral drugs or vaccines that are effective
against COVID-19. It has rapidly spread around the world, posing enormous health, economic,
environmental and social challenges to the entire human population. The coronavirus outbreak is
severely disrupting the global economy. Almost all the nations are struggling to slow down the 
transmission of the disease by testing & treating patients, quarantining suspected persons through
contact tracing, restricting large gatherings, maintaining complete or partial lock down etc. This paper
describes the impact of COVID-19 epidemic on college of education who efforts degree course and  challenges of teacher student relationship in teaching learning ,extension and research activity, and
the possible ways in which the problem can be resolved has also been discussed therein.