Education is the guiding light to development, climbing up the social ladder, and having perspectives about how the world can change for good. With time people on earth have felt the need for education, emphasizing education as a right and considering it a Sustainable Development Goal. This paper explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has come as a blow to the education system and sector; the rights, Sustainable goals are being jeopardized due to the sudden closure of the educational institutions and shift in teaching methods from paper to digital. All three education sectors, primary, secondary, and tertiary, are severely affected by the pandemic. While the government had started stressing on the quality of education, the access once again has been put into question. There are a revisiting and framing of new initiatives by India’s government to take up digital measures of education for the students. While the future of education and students in India still remain unclear with examinations getting canceled and new academic calendars are being prepared and relooked at, the concern is about the changes that shall come in the education post-pandemic to build better.
The New Normal of the Education System: Issues of Rights and Sustainability in Pandemic Trapped India