Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Online Education: An Analysis of the Attitude of College Students in Brahmaputra Valley of Upper Assam, India

Covid-19 Pandemic affects the economic life of the households which results in change in education style of the students almost all parts of the World. Due to this pandemic, the education system is shifted from offline learning to the online learning. Though online education has some positive impacts but it does not reach the students living in the rural areas particularly in rural Assam. Lack of electricity, lack of laptops/mobile phones with internet connectivity, poor network in rural areas, people from BPL families etc. are some of the issues where online education will not reached the poor students in rural Assam. In this background a study has been carried to find the attitude and perception of the college students towards online education in rural flood affected areas of Assam. For the purpose of collecting the primary data, a random sampling method have used by the researcher for collecting the information from 300 degree students at Brahmaputra Valley of Assam. Accordingly, the economically backward and flood affected Lakhimpur district of Assam was purposively selected by the researcher for the present study. The study concludes that there was a positive impact of online education on college students during this Covid-19 Pandemic situation except on the students living in the rural areas who were economically poor background families in the district under study.