Analysis of digital divide pertaining to changing environment across educational sector with the emergence of COVID 19
• It has been few years since India had first launched digital India campaign, which was cater to enhance digital literacy of the people. Policy measures and initiatives were taken at educational institutes to encourage digital literacy among children of all age-group. Gadgets were provided at the elementary school in many rural areas to encourage school administration for encouraging children towards digital literacy. • With the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic, the country went into a lock-down period and hence all the educational institutes were shutdown, resulting in halting of school/ college-based education and new initiatives were started such as home-based online education and education programme on television and radio. These, new normal situation scenario has again highlighted the contrast between vast digital divide that exist across the nation. The ramifications of COVID 19 on the work environment around all the industries has been in observation, which clearly ind...