An Integral Study on the Impact of Covid-19 over the School Education in Sri Ganganagar District, Rajasthan
Author : Dr. Kanchan Bala
Abstract :
Every country’s overall development is founded on education of the people live in it as it fosters a certain degree of knowledge, morals, and awareness. It is also considered an essential part of the development in terms of the advancement of technology. If a country has a greater literacy rate, its GDP would grow faster, and its unemployment rate would be lower that is a most important indicator of development of the country. Education plays an important role for developing skill, good habits, particular mindset and knowledge of the school children who are considered potential proactive developer of the country. Education system cannot be discontinued for long as it can adversely impact the health and wealth of the country and its people who the responsibility of the government of that country. It was an unprecedented and unfortunate event when WHO declared outbreak of corona virus a pandemic creating concern for all the nations. It first effect was discontinuing the school education as there ware severe fear of spreading the virus through the students going to school and the decision for termination the school education for the children and shifting over online education had become the necessity of that time. It brought about a great deal of disruption in education systems, affecting nearly 1.6 billion learners in more than 200 countries. Several schools, colleges and universities had to discontinue face-to-face teaching-learning process. An immediate alternative of education was the imminent need of the hour. All the educational institution is fear-stricken not knowing what would be in the future. Moreover, many of the people engaged in teaching-learning process did never know about the online teaching system as they were not well versed in it. The covid-19 provided opportunity along with the threat and fear for future of academic segment of the society. The presented research paper aims to provide the impact of the covid-19 on the school education through an integral study in and around the Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan that is researcher’s hometown also. This researched paper is by nature an empirical one which tries no study the impact of the covid-19 on the education of the school going children through the prospective of parents, teachers and students of private as well as government schools in urban area of Sri Ganganagar district in Rajasthan. 50 respondents from the district have been consulted and data were collected through a structured questionnaire. The respondents were selected using the non-probability sampling method. The results revealed that there was a negative impact on an educational system like loss of human capital, unnecessary and sudden investment for developing the online system for smart classes and providing the data and information using the technology.
Keywords :
Covid-19, pandemic, school, education, online classes
