Impact of Covid-19 on education scenario and digital divide in India

The present paper is an attempt to explore the impact of Covid-19 on the education system and digital divided in India. The pandemic has not only derailed economy, but also has affected the education system of the world and particularly India. Since more than one and a half years, all the educational institutions have closed and those few, which are having better infrastructure facility for digitalization, are only able to survive to some extent. Various educational institutes, which are not able to cope with the time, are forced to close their institutes. This is survival of the fittest. This scenario of uncertainty is unprecedented over recent times. The present VUCA environment has inspired the present paper. To do so, secondary data were applied and the aim was to undertake a research project on digital divide in higher education system in this eastern part of country, i.e. Odisha.