IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON STUDENTS’ LIVELINESS AND ACADEMIC PROGRESS: AN E-SURVEY BASED ANALYSIS IN INDIA

Abstract
COVID-19 infectious disease is now considered as the first major climacteric invasion on humankind of the twenty-first centurysince the ‘Spanish flu’ of the twentieth. The virus has not only alarmed the mental and physical health of humankind, but its direct impact has severely damaged the economy of maximum nations of the world, and India is no exception to that. Education also was not left out either from the impact. In India, educational institutions had to shut down to break the chain of virus transmission. Instead of offline, the digital mode of classes for colleges and universities has been organized by the Institutional Authorities by getting the direction from University Grants Commission (UGC) of India. However, the regional imbalances and inequalities in families’ economic conditions hinder the successful implementation of that. As a result, the students having a standard level of awareness about the COVID-19 disease are affected by its various adverse impacts produced directly or indirectly.Anxiety, negative thoughts, boredom, and future academic uncertainty are engulfing them.This paper describes the students’ awareness level about COVID-19. It focuses on the pandemic’s impact on the students’ academic swing and mental health and prescribes the possible ways to assuage the impact of the pandemic on students.

Keywords: Students Awareness, Lockdown, Mental health and studies, Family dependency, Career uncertainty

https://doi.org/10.37948/ensemble-2021-sp1-a008