The Coronavirus has severely affected everyone in the world. The Coronavirus- led lockdown resulted in the shutting down of schools, colleges, offices, and transportation services that completely disrupted everyday life.

The education system of India is a diverse functional system with more than 15 lakh schools and over 50,000 higher educational institutions. The lockdown has wholly transformed the entire educational scenario in the country.

• Classroom learning has changed into online classes with active engagement from students, teachers, professional educators, and parents.
• Parents, too, became active participants in this new curriculum. The parents-teachers meetings occur online, and parents can now easily track their child’s academic progress through an e-connect app by schools.
• Exams occur online, study materials are available online, and students and teachers continuously engage with the weekly projects and assignments.
• Social Media websites and apps like WhatsApp, Facebook, YouTube, Zoom, Telegram, and Google have become new sites for sharing and gaining knowledge and information.

Educators and teachers are the first and foremost excellent learners themselves. They have excelled and adapted to this new virtual learning procedure and technique with utmost sincerity, confidence, and integrity. Their relentless effort has paved the way towards a better future for students everywhere in India.

Online classes are the established new normal in the present post-pandemic era. Time and again, technology stood as our friend, mentor, a guiding angel, and a lifeline in these desperate times in humanity. Teachers are doing a marvelous job at recounting students with pedagogical, empirical, scientific, and technical knowledge via online mediums. Many educators did a commendable job creating a customized virtual learning lesson for students to fill the gap in their academic session in these unprecedented times.

The government has taken impressive measures to endure and encourage this new educational system. At the central and state level, the government has taken measures to ensure that schools and colleges do not hamper during the lockdown period. They have come up with their contribution to an uninterrupted educational curriculum. The Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) introduced several online class arrangements like online portals. These educational channels are direct to home TV to make the educational process efficient.

• Swayam: It is a national online educational platform that consists of over 1900 courses for both school and higher-level education.
• Swayam Prabha: It has 32 DTH Tv channels that transmit educational content throughout the day on a 24/7 basis. These channels cover the curriculum for both school level education (from class 9-12) and higher education level (consisting the undergraduate, postgraduate, engineering, vocational courses, and teachers learning) in the field of arts, commerce, science, technology, law, medicine, performing arts, and agriculture.
• E-PG Pathshala: This website is specifically designed for postgraduate students to access the online course and study materials, articles, and e-books.
• Diksha: This portal consists of e-learning materials including video tutorials and worksheets for teachers, students, and parents.

These websites proved beneficial during the lockdown period and will also remain beneficial in the days to come.

However, the new academic session in the coming years will bring new challenges. With the reopening of schools and colleges and students and teachers returning to their classrooms, the old traditional teaching method will drastically change. There will be an adoption of new teaching approaches, and new classroom discipline rules will also prevail.

Following are the safety measures schools and colleges could adopt that upon reopening to prevent the spread of the virus:

• A strict social distancing policy inside the school and college premises.
• Mandatory wearing of masks and carrying of hand sanitizer.
• New seating plans in institutions, keeping the social distancing factor in mind.
• There will be provisions of safe drinking water and hygiene standards in the canteen and washrooms.
• School buses and other transportation facilities will ensure proper social distancing.
•  Installation of auto hand sanitising dispensers, full body sanitisers, air sprayers, and surface sprayers, dry vapour steamers, infrared thermometers in campus based on the technologies like IOT, AI, thermal imaging and sensing, vapour steaming, electrostatic spray etc.

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