E-education: A Challenging task for India
The impact of the pandemic has been severe. It has literally pushed us in those corners where we may have feared going. It has led us into adapting changes which we had safeguarded for the future. And it has also exposed our shortcomings in many aspects. Its time to pull up our socks. Education remains a very important sector which has been directly impacted. Educational system around the world has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The nasty virus led to the closure of schools, universities and colleges. These worldwide closures impacted over 91 percent of the world’s student population. According to one of the latest surveys, about 1.277 billion learners are currently affected due to school closures. According to UNICEF, 46 countries implemented nationwide closures and 27 implemented local closures, which means 72.9 percent of the world's student population got impacted directly. Despite the fact that schools in 72 countries remained open, the whole 'fear from the de