How a Nagaland school prepped its students for online learning before pandemic hit

Kohima: As teachers, students, and schools across the world struggled with the shutting of classrooms after an onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic and impending lockdowns, schools in the remote regions of Northeast India struggled a lot more with infrastructure and connectivity issues during the past year.

Then, in the thick of the pandemic itself, the Indian government announced its first educational reforms in 34 years, with the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020. As reported by EastMojo earlier, while educationists and institutions across the nation welcomed the new policy, they are still unclear about the process of implementation.

A school in Nagaland, however, started preparing itself in line with the new policy three years ago and was ready to face the challenges of online teaching as soon as the pandemic forced the Indian government to announce a nationwide lockdown in March 2020.