Holding online classes for those students who have gone home during the crisis will be a big challenge As the covid-19 pandemic has necessitated closure of schools and universities across the globe, teaching has moved online.

However, in a country such as India where access to the internet is pitifully low, this new education model may fail miserably, an article by Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay of the Indian Statistical Institute argues.

Using data collected by the National Sample Survey as part of the Survey on Education (2014), Mukhopadhyay argues that only 27% of households in India have some member with access to the internet.

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