IMPACT OF COVID 19 ON THE EDUCATION SECTOR

The COVID 19 pandemic has resulted in the disruption of the education sector affecting all the level of education from pre-primary to higher education level. With the increasing number of corona virus cases the state government across the country has locked down transportation, closed all public and private offices including educational institutions. The structure of schooling, learning and teaching methodologies are affected due to the ongoing lockdown, whereby the schools are forced to depend completely on digital platforms like Google classroom, Zoom etc. But the access to technology is limited only to the privileged sections of the society and is limited to only few schools. This paper is an attempt to study the wide disparity amongst the people with respect to access to technology for education during the current scenario and its affect on the teachers and students because of the lack of infrastructure.