One of the most powerful tools for the social and economic progress of a country is quality education. Most of the school dropout children and child labour belongs to low-income groups and marginalized communities without any permanent employment and earning facilities. The socio- economic problems of the parents will not allowed them to continue their children’s education and unable to feed them. This is the main reason that most of the families are not able to send their children to the schools. The availability of limited resources for their primary needs will always keep them in the social process of competition and conflict. The parents are poverty stricken, illiterates and not in a position to assist their children’s education.
When hunger strikes a community, it hurts children the most, draining them from the will and ability to learn with shabby appearance, the children cannot concentrate on lessons and also mingle with other students, for that they always confined.
The situations and experiences makes them to keep always in social fear which makes them to live in the culture of silence out of which, they lost human nature of creativity. The result of the above is permanent ignorance and poverty. So, majority of the poor communities converting their children as child labour and not showing interest on their education.
Due to the global outbreak of covid-19, changing the education across the global. The students in India went through a similar ordeal as their academic sessions went completely out of the track due to the pandemic. While the shift to online education was comparatively less dreadful for the elite schools had to steer through massive challenges to disseminate the course matter through a digital medium. And the worst affected were government schools as the majority kids enrolled in these public facilities do not have a smartphone in their family.
The education sector suffers the major repercussion due to their digital divide. The children who had access to technology in form of phones, machines and the internet were able to be in touch with academics, but lacks of less fortunate kids lost whole year’s education.
There is a need for special strategies to make education more technology, friendly and digitally empowered by strengthening the digital and physical infrastructure.
To accelerate access, equality and quality of school education.
To impart training in computers.
To provide food, medical assistance and recreation facilities.
To give counselling for the children and their parents for continuation of education without any deviation and disturbances on the part of the children.
