Authors : BabitaRawat *; Sonakshi Bhatia**; Aayush Jain
Page Nos : 270-273
Description :
The Indian government announced the nation-wide lockdown on March 24, 2020, bringing thousands of educational institutes’ operations to a halt for at least 21 days, and hence preventing India’s million of schools and college going population from receiving their education.These sudden changes have brought immense agony to the students who are already burdened with their semester and competitive exams, research and academic activities. COVID‑19 pandemic poses a unique medical challenge to the humanity in recent times.With the hour-by-hour changes in response to this global health crisis, universities across the globe are making drastic changes in a very short period of time, shifting traditional face-to-face course content to online content. This is a paradigm shift that will potentially shape the future trajectory of campus life. The spread of COVID-19 has led to the closure of educational institutions all over the world. Such closure accelerated the development of the online learning environments within those institutions so that learning would not be disrupted.There is a paradigm shift in the way professional courses are taught. Here the Digital India vision of the government is emerging as a vital instrument for solving the present crisis due to Covid-19. Due to COVID-19 .This paper discusses about the various initiatives undertaken by ministries like MHRD, Department of Technical Education, NCERT and others to support and benefit students in India. Present paper also focuses on advantages of the online teaching
