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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Notes from Jaipur on How School Closures Impacted Children from Marginalised Communities -Mohit Verma and Navya Poonia

Notes from Jaipur on How School Closures Impacted Children from Marginalised Communities -Mohit Verma and Navya Poonia

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published Published on Oct 23, 2021   modified Modified on Oct 24, 2021

-TheWire.in

A survey carried out in Jaipur's Kathputli Nagar Basti and Hathroi areas has revealed that several children completely forgot what they had learnt before the lockdown was imposed due to COVID-19.

India has experienced one of the longest school closures in the world, an average of 69 weeks across states, leaving millions of school children without any support. Since then, all discussions and debates around the opening of schools have remained limited to those who can afford online education, ignoring the large majority with no access to the internet, a figure which is as high as over 70% for rural areas according to TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India).

As for Rajasthan, according to a report by the Indian Express earlier this year, only 10% of children at a secondary school in Banswara district had a smartphone at home. That’s how bad the situation has been.

To investigate the ground realities of online education further, we surveyed about 45 houses in the Kathputli Nagar Basti and Hathroi areas in Jaipur as part of the SCHOOL survey carried out by Roadscholarz, a team of researchers, in August across 15 states and Union territories. Among other things, the survey found that out of the 1400+ surveyed children in relatively deprived hamlets and bastis, only 24% in urban areas, and 8% in rural areas were studying online.

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TheWire.in, 23 October, 2021, https://thewire.in/education/notes-from-jaipur-on-how-school-closures-impacted-children-from-marginalised-communities


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