• Nitu Kumari
• Dr. Malvika Kandpal

Today majority of educational institutions in India are shut down even issuance of various guidelines from central for opening of educational institutions from October 15, 2020. These closures have a huge impact on education sector in India. This paper made an attempt to study the impact of pandemic COVID-19 on education sector in India and role of social media, e-learning tools and government efforts to overcome the crisis. This crisis has direct impact on teaching methodologies, placements of students and status of students studying abroad. Today chalk-blackboard teaching model is shifted to online teaching model. Most of teachers are unprepared and untrained for online education. Low income private schools and government school may not be able to adopt online teaching methods. Students of government schools are also missing mid day meal. The sudden shift to online teaching without any planning in country like India where most of schools have no genuine digital infrastructure for online teaching, students can become a passive learner. Only online teaching via Zoom or Google class App is not a complete solution. Some proper Strategies should be made to overcome this crisis completely. School and colleges should have a tighter relationship with use of educational technology. Edu Tech Companies should focus on developments of best Learning Management systems for school or colleges. Teachers should be given a proper training for online teaching and use of new innovative teaching methods and they should be encouraged to develop best e-learning contents for students. Students should be motivated to use various e-learning portals and apps launched by the government and education bodies such as DIKSHA portal, e-Pathshala, Swayam, recently announced by central government PM e-Vidya program and also various social media platforms for a collaborative work in education.

COVID-19, Online teaching, Zoom, Goole class, DIKSHA, Social media.

"Impact of pandemic COVID-19 on education sector in India and role of social media, e-learning tools and government efforts to overcome the crisis ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 11, page no.663-671, November-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2011224.pdf

"Impact of pandemic COVID-19 on education sector in India and role of social media, e-learning tools and government efforts to overcome the crisis ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 11, page no. pp663-671, November-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2011224.pdf