Mumbai: Highlighting Digital Divide, parents in rural areas and urban differently proportionally on the question whether it is time to return to the physical class.
While 88% of parents in villages supporting the school continuing the right class, the appropriate proportion in the city is 78%.
The result is part of the online survey conducted by the State Education Research Council and training on the willingness of parents for school to be physically continued.
Last year, students in rural areas were reported to suffer learning losses due to poor internet connectivity.
Just online class also results in higher school dropouts, especially girls, increased child labor and depression, especially in the village.
Not surprisingly, parents in rural and semi-urban areas, with poor internet strength and infrastructure, sharper than their city colleagues for school to reopen.
Of the 2,69,116 parents across the country participating in the survey, 1,40,424 came from Rural Maharashtra, 1,00,727 from the city and the rest of the semi-urban areas.
The reopening of the school will be decided by the Committee established in Covid-free villages for a month.
Along with maintaining the Covid protocol in its place, parental permission is a must to start a physical school.
Classes every day may not exceed four hours and only the main subjects must be taught.
Each class should not have more than 20 students and the presence is not mandatory.