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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In the academic year that ended with school closures due to COVID-19, only 22% of schools in India had Internet facilities, according to Education Ministry data released on Thursday. Among government schools, less than 12% had Internet in 2019-20, while less than 30% had functional computer facilities. This affected the kind of digital education options available to schools during the pandemic, as well as plans for hybrid learning in the days ahead.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The availability of digital education &amp;mdash; whether via live, synchronous teaching on apps like Zoom, or through recorded lectures, emails, WhatsApp or educational apps &amp;mdash; was largely dependent on whether schools, teachers and parents had access to the necessary infrastructure. In many States, teachers came to school and taught in their own empty classrooms, using their blackboards and lab facilities, while facing a computer screen that communicated the lessons to their students at home.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;However, the UDISE+ data makes clear the digital divide, which made this a viable option only in some States. In many Union Territories, as well as in the State of Kerala, more than 90% of schools, both government and private, had access to working computers. In States such as Chhattisgarh (83%) and Jharkhand (73%), installation of computer facilities in most government schools paid off, while in others such as Tamil Nadu (77%), Gujarat (74%) and Maharashtra (71%), private schools had higher levels of computer availability than in government schools.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;However, in States such as Assam (13%), Madhya Pradesh (13%), Bihar (14%), West Bengal (14%), Tripura (15%) and Uttar Pradesh (18%), less than one in five schools had working computers. The situation is worse in government schools, with less than 5% of U.P.&amp;rsquo;s government schools having the facility.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The connectivity divide is even starker. Only three States &amp;mdash; Kerala (88%), Delhi (86%) and Gujarat (71%) &amp;mdash; have Internet facilities in more than half their schools. This will make it hard for most schools to implement the options for hybrid learning as schools try to re-open with staggered attendance post the pandemic.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In the academic year that ended with school closures due to COVID-19, only 22% of schools in India had Internet facilities, according to Education Ministry data released on Thursday. Among government schools, less than 12% had Internet in 2019-20, while less than 30% had functional computer facilities. This affected the kind of digital education options available to schools during the pandemic, as well as plans for hybrid learning in the days ahead.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In the academic year that ended with school closures due to COVID-19, only 22% of schools in India had Internet facilities, according to Education Ministry data released on Thursday. Among government schools, less than 12% had Internet in 2019-20, while less than 30% had functional computer facilities. This affected the kind of digital education options available to schools during the pandemic, as well as plans for hybrid learning in the days ahead.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;However, the UDISE+ data makes clear the digital divide, which made this a viable option only in some States. In many Union Territories, as well as in the State of Kerala, more than 90% of schools, both government and private, had access to working computers. In States such as Chhattisgarh (83%) and Jharkhand (73%), installation of computer facilities in most government schools paid off, while in others such as Tamil Nadu (77%), Gujarat (74%) and Maharashtra (71%), private schools had higher levels of computer availability than in government schools.&lt;/p&gt;

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<p style="text-align:justify"><em>Less than 30% government schools had computers: Education Ministry data.</em></p>

<p style="text-align:justify">In the academic year that ended with school closures due to COVID-19, only 22% of schools in India had Internet facilities, according to Education Ministry data released on Thursday. Among government schools, less than 12% had Internet in 2019-20, while less than 30% had functional computer facilities. This affected the kind of digital education options available to schools during the pandemic, as well as plans for hybrid learning in the days ahead.</p>

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