Tuesday, April 21, 2020

E-Education Spreading In Rural India During Coronavirus Pandemic


In the era of the Corona crisis, today all educational activities are being done through online mediums. The central government has provided many facilities for online studies. The Union Human Resource Development Ministry has launched the Bharat Padhe Online Campaign. The aim of this campaign is how online education can be improved. The meaning of this entire exercise is to overcome the obstacles that come in the way of e-education.
E-education can prove to be extremely effective and effective in spreading education in rural India and remote areas. In rural India, lack of teachers, lack of interest in the education of people, poverty, lack of infrastructure, etc. are the main reasons due to which there is no progress in the field of rural education.
But this situation can be changed with the use of e-education. Rural India will be able to take advantage of online education only when its digital infrastructure is very strong. And this is where the biggest challenge arises. 
Rural India still lacks facilities like electricity, broadband network connectivity, banking, etc. All these things are related to each other. Practically, even today, electricity has not reached many homes in rural areas. Without electricity, the convenience of a broadband network is meaningless. It is true that smartphones have emerged as a major medium of e-education these days, but it is also true that even today, not all mobile phone consumers in India have smartphones available, especially in rural areas. There is also no proper arrangement of the internet. The lack of infrastructure is obviously the biggest challenge in rural India for online education.  Read More:

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