Lok Sabha Question No. 2828 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-03-21
Subject: Impact of Online Education
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Sushil Kumar Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION AND LITERACY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2828

TO BE ANSWERED ON 21 ST  MARCH, 2022

## Impact of Online Education

## 2828. SHRI SUSHIL KUMAR SINGH:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether  the  post-pandemic  crisis  in  schooling  and  higher  education  portends  a grim future for India's students;
- (b)  whether the Government under its administrative control have tried to gauge the impact of online education on the learning levels and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government is aware that the damage, pedagogic and psychological, caused by prolonged online learning is likely to emerge over time;
- (d)  whether  the  Government  is  aware  that  the  shadow  education  and  coaching industry has seen exponential growth in the last one year;
- (e) if so, the steps being taken to provide remedial education; and
- (f) the stance of the Government on coaching industry?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (SMT ANNPURNA DEVI)

(a) to (c) To  facilitate  online  education,  a  comprehensive  initiative  called PM eVIDYA has  been  initiated  as  part  of  Atma  Nirbhar  Bharat  Abhiyaan  on  17th  May, 2020, which unifies all efforts related to digital/online/on-air education to enable multimode access to education. The initiative includes:

-  DIKSHA (one nation, one digital platform) is  the  nation's  digital  infrastructure for providing  quality  e-content  for  school  education  in  states/UTs  and  QR  coded Energized Textbooks for all grades are available on it.
-  One earmarked Swayam Prabha TV channel per class from 1 to 12 (one class, one channel).
-  Extensive use of Radio, Community radio and CBSE Podcast- Shiksha Vani.
-  Special e-content for visually and  hearing  impaired  developed  on  Digitally Accessible Information System (DAISY) and in sign language on NIOS website/ YouTube.

Education  being  in  the  concurrent  list  of  the  Constitution  and  majority  of  the schools,  colleges  and  university  are  under  the  domain  of  respective  State  and  UT Governments.  The  Central  Government  is  constantly  advising  States/UTs  through guidelines and meeting with respect to interventions for reducing impact of pandemic on education. The guidelines issued so far are as follows:

-  Guidelines For Children of Migrant Labourers: https://www.mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload\_files/mhrd/files/Migrant%20labour%20guideline.pdf
-  Guidelines For out of School Children and Mitigation of Loss of Learning: https://www.education.gov.in/sites/upload\_files/mhrd/files/guidelines\_oosc.pdf.
-  PRAGYATA Guidelines on Digital Education: https://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload\_files/mhrd/files/pragyata-guidelines\_0.pdf
- Learning:
-  Learning Enhancement Guidelines for Continuous https://ncert.nic.in/pdf/announcement/Learning\_%20Enhancement\_Guidelines.pdf
-  Covid initiative report: https://dsel.education.gov.in/sites/default/files/update/covid\_initiatives.pdf
-  Continuous Learning Plan (CLP) (https://ncert.nic.in/pdf/announcement/Learning\_%20Enhancement\_Guidelines.pdf)
-  Guidelines for Parents for Home based Learning (https://www.education.gov.in/sites/upload\_files/mhrd/files/documentreports/MoE\_Home\_Learning\_Guidelines.pdf)

(d) to (f) In  order  to  safeguard  against  the  exploitative  practices  of  ed-tech companies, the Government has issued advisory which includes do's and don'ts for the  stakeholders.  It  has  also  reiterated  legal  provisions  for  e-commerce  firms  for information  to  citizens  who  are  consumers  of  ed-tech  services.  The  details  may  be seen at:

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1784582

The Government of India through National Testing Agency (NTA) has launched a Mobile App 'National Test Abhyas' with the help of this app students get access to high quality online mock tests for NEET (UG) and JEE (Main) entrance examination. Government has launched  SWAYAM Portal,  which  offers  interactive  course  content and  online  discussion  forum  for  clearing  doubts  for  students  from  Class  9  to  PostGraduation.

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