For 19 months in pandemic, 43% children had no access to education: Study

The socially and economically disadvantaged groups and children with disabilities were worst impacted as compared to more advantaged counterparts: Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy's report

Primarily due to a lack of internet and access to digital devices, 43 per cent of children in India did not have access to education for 19 months since March 2020. According to a new study, as much as 97 per cent of children in India, as per some estimates, did not have access to devices like smartphones, tablets or laptops.

In early November, New Delhi-based think tank Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy released a report titled "Clearing the Air: A Synthesised Mapping of Out of School Children during Covid-19 in India (April 2020-May 2022)", compiling various other studies to