• Mousami Bagchi

The COVID-19 pandemic in India is part of the worldwide pandemic of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first case of COVID-19 in India, which originated from China, was reported on 30 January 2020. India currently has the largest number of confirmed cases in Asia, and has the third highest number of confirmed cases in the world after the United States and Brazil with the number of total confirmed cases breaching the 100,000 mark on 19 May, 200,000 on 3 June, and 1,000,000 confirmed cases on 17 July 2020. India's case fatality rate is relatively low at 2.8%, against the global 4.7%, as of 6 July. Six cities account for around half of all reported cases in the country – Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Pune and Kolkata. As of 24 May 2020, Lakshadweep is the only region which has not reported a case. On 10 June, India's recoveries exceeded active cases for the first time reducing 49% of total infections followed by recovery rate crossing 60% till early July. Although, active have continued to increase persistently. In this situation schools and colleges are closed from 22nd of March.2020 and parents are totally confused regarding future of their wards. Whereas government schools are busy in providing mid day meals to the students, proving their school building to be used as quarantine centres private schools have emerged as a saviour for continuing the classes via online mode. There is a lot of debate regarding the role of schools, future of students, payment of fees but we cannot ignore the fact that private schools are doing their very best to keep the education process rolling. Still they are facing many outrages like spreading of inequality because poor families cannot afford android phones or can pay huge fees so, they are deprived from education. Again the question comes who is better in terms of providing quality education still in this pandemic situation.

Pandemic, Education system, Motivation

"Govenment Schools vs Private Schools- During Covid-19 pandemic", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 7, page no.2226-2228, July-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2007286.pdf

"Govenment Schools vs Private Schools- During Covid-19 pandemic", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 7, page no. pp2226-2228, July-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2007286.pdf