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The Covid-19 pandemic effected a lot many businesses in worse ways possible. On the other hand, a number of businesses did quite well in during this time. The edtech business was also one of them. That became the best solution possible during lockdowns. Currently there are various edtech startups working really well in India. And there are more to come in future, looking at the demand of edtech by consumers. Few top edtech companies doing well in India are as follows: Awing Enterprises: The startup was founded in 2016. It has its head office in Bengaluru. Its s basically a gig-workforce training platform. Awig takes project for on the ground and digital core functions like auditing, new business development, operations management and more. It has a network of around 60000 training gig partners all over India. Classplus: Classplus is a Delhi based startup, which was founded in 2018. Classplus aims to digitalize the tuition system pan India. Class plus has designed a setup to let the tutor share videolectures, notes, homework, assignment through a mobile first product. It aims to ease the tutoring system with all the process going online. It does bridge the gap of education requirement with particular demands. Doubtnut: Languages are also the base to from a good career and be flexible in goals. Keeping the importance of learning languages in mind and looking at the high demand from people. Doubtnut as an edtech startup has brought up the service of language leaning tuitions online. As a special fact the company uses Machine learningalgorithms, NLP and Image recognition for its video-based solutions according to the queries that needs to be responded to students. Masai School: Masai School has developed a 3.1-million-dollar worth share into the software development market. It aims to train beginners as well as experienced professionals. This startup basically serves two types of programs. One aims to train only beginners in the field of coding. This program is designed for beginner who knows nothing about coding at all and is starting from the scratch. The second program is designed for the experienced professional in coding only to let them learn all the updated coding skills. Along with that Masai school has come up with a special scheme. Where students do not need to pay any fees until they start earning a salary up to 5lakh per Anum at least. Pesto: More or less like Masai School. Pesto aims at providing online training for developers. The online program is available for learners across India. The minimum requirement to enroll for this online program of developers is to have 2 years of related field experience. There are a lot more edtech startups emerging and currently working well. Indian market has acquired the trend of edtech market and it seems to have bigger and better growth on supply and demand part in coming future.

Pune: It is evident that the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted education in India in 2020-21. From blackboards to computer screens, we sure have come a long way. From schools to universities, all have adopted the online mode to impart education and knowledge. There are certain places in the country where schools have resumed but not at their full capacity. There is still hope for normalcy but not anytime soon. Since India has only vaccinated adults, children still face the risk of being exposed to the virus.  Therefore, throughout 2020 and now 2021, we saw students around us attending school online.  However, there was a certain population of students we missed to consider.  Online teaching is something many institutions are contemplating, but do Indians have the capacity to fully embrace digital learning and teaching?  According to a preliminary data analysis, there are various challenges faced by students in India to access digital education.  An online survey carried out by Learning Spiral shows that children face a multitude of problems in accessing education digitally.  The results of the survey are: • The dominant mode of education being used is WhatsApp which is used by 75% of people in India. • The second mode of education is phone calls between a teacher and their students. It is being used by 38% of people in India. The challenges that emerged in the survey are: • Over 75% of children reported a host of challenges to access education digitally.  • The unavailability of the internet stands to be the top cause of not being able to access digital education. • Not being able to afford data plans and the internet is also a major cause of not being able to access digital education. • Poor internet connectivity is also a hindrance for children to access digital education. • Lack of IT support in schools and to students creates problems in the delivery of online learning. • Continuous technological changes pose a challenge for students with little or no technical knowledge.  • Un-optimized software for mobile devices has emerged as a serious issue.  • Many students have reported security issues while online learning.  Conclusion: Even though there are multiple benefits of online education, it can only be reaped by students who have access to good internet, smart devices and technology knowledge and assistance.  Despite multiple challenges faced by students on a daily basis to access digital education, not even a single instance of delivery of education through a non-digital medium was reported.  Due to continued digital education in India despite the aforementioned challenges, it is estimated that students from disadvantaged backgrounds will lose out on 40% of their previous year’s learning.  Therefore, the country and the government should focus on democratizing the use of technology and find solutions to reduce the massive digital divide between urban and rural areas in India.  Irrespective of the location of the student, assistance in terms of digital education should be made available by the schools and the government.