{"id":128056,"date":"2021-08-23T18:59:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T13:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=128056"},"modified":"2021-08-26T11:16:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T05:46:50","slug":"missing-school-missing-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/missing-school-missing-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing School, Missing Meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/blogs\/toi-edit-page\/missing-school-missing-meals-without-remedial-action-the-pandemic-will-cause-a-terrible-learning-deficit-in-tomorrows-workforce\/\">Times of India<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: Covid-19 and its impact on the education sector<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>: The education sector in India is under pressure from pandemic-related issues, as identified by a parliamentary committee on Education. Let&#8217;s have a brief look at issues in the education sector of India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong>: Recently, the Parliamentary committee on education prepared a report on the impact of Covid-19 on India&#8217;s education system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Findings of the report<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some 24 crore children have missed school for over a year.<\/li>\n<li>77% of children have no access to online instruction.<\/li>\n<li>In any case, \u2018Online education is not real education.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Dropouts have increased at the secondary level<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other issues in the education sector<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Gender divide<\/strong>&#8211; There are more dropouts among boys than girls. Boys are abandoning school to earn a living \u2013 sometimes, after Covid, as their family\u2019s chief breadwinner.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Digital divide<\/strong>&#8211; The report admits the yawning digital divide that has deprived most children of instruction during the lockdown. Further, the benefits of online education are going to select few rich people.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Effect on primary education<\/strong>&#8211; the batches of 2020 and 2021 have effectively not taken the first step towards literacy and numeracy, by enrolling in class 1. A large proportion of those enrolled earlier will not have acquired the skills or forgotten what they acquired.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Effect on health and nutrition<\/strong>&#8211; physical growth and nourishment have been declining among India\u2019s children for several years. The post-pandemic plight of the poor will multiply the damage. The Centre for Science and Environment estimates that 37.5 crore children might suffer weight and growth loss<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Must read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-ails-mid-day-meal-schemes-implementation\/\">What ails Mid Day Meal scheme&#8217;s implementation<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Times of India Relevance: Covid-19 and its impact on the education sector Synopsis: The education sector in India is under pressure from pandemic-related issues, as identified by a parliamentary committee on Education. Let&#8217;s have a brief look at issues in the education sector of India. Context: Recently, the Parliamentary committee on education prepared a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/missing-school-missing-meals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Missing School, Missing Meals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[8297,231,9276,212],"class_list":["post-128056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-digital-divide","tag-education","tag-education-school","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700780623,"cached_date":1704881809},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}