The National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021 report, published on Wednesday, has painted a gloomy picture of digital Education in schools in the northeast, where over 40% students spent their days at Home during the pandemic without any digital device to aid their education.
The digital divide has been the sharpest in each Assam,ManipurandMeghalayawhere 48% of the students had no digital device at home. NAS 2021 was conducted for Classes III, V, VIII and X.
In Arunachal Pradesh, 43% of the students lacked a digital device at home. The corresponding figures for Mizoram andNagalandwere 39 and 37% respectively. InTripura, 46% of the students had no digital device.
In Assam, while 58% students of all the surveyed classes experienced worry, anxiety and fear during the pandemic, 61% experienced similar moods in Arunachal. A total of 59% students in Manipur and Meghalaya went through the same experience. The corresponding figures for other NE states where students experienced worry, anxiety and fear were Mizoram (54%), Nagaland (62%) and Tripura (59%).
Among the NE states, about 6,000 schools participated in the exercise from Assam, where 1.7 lakh students and about 27,000 teachers from the state were covered.