16 March 2022

PUNE: A Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) plus report for 2020-21, released by the Union ministry of education, revealed that just 36% schools in Maharashtra under all managements had internet facility on their premises.

The situation was poor in government schools where only 12% had the facility while 83% of private schools had arrangements for the internet. The state government has been promoting digital education, but teachers said that on ground, the situation was poor and they had to largely depend on their own cellphone internet data which was not dependable due to network issues.