Why School Education Matters During COVID Pandemic in India?

Education system is most disturbed due to COVID pandemic that led to school closure and paradigm shift from traditional to digital education. Hence, the educational achievement of students became crucial where the people live in a great promise of technology driven society. This review paper identified digital learning that deepens social inequity with long existing structural inequalities rather reducing equity gap in education since the issues of economic wherewithal determines whether to prefer digital education. It does not favour to everyone, the inequitable quality learning resulted in learning crisis of loss and dropout rate in the country. The learning crisis of loss affect future career and may accrue unhealthy labour force. Still no freedom from the risk of pandemic and increasing COVID induced poverty that poses new challenges to achieve sustainable development goals, hence, need an integrated model for the technology driven inclusive education in schools.