Covid-19 fallout: The impact on education in India

Over 1.5 million schools across India closed down due to the pandemic A switch to large-scale digital education is not possible now. Only 24 percent of households have access to the internet, according to a 2019 government survey. In rural India, the numbers are far lower, with only 4 percent of households having access The education ministry’s budget for digital e-learning was slashed to Rs 469 crore in 2020-21—the year Covid struck—from Rs 604 crore the previous year
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