Teaching, Learning and Evaluation Process in Government Higher Education Institutions during COVID-19 Catastrophe: Some Verifiable Findings and Courteous Suggestions

Abstract

Abstract: Higher education is the most contributing and paramount instrument in designing and redesigning the landscape and destiny of any country. Undeniably, it is always the key socio-economic device and has positively proportionate relation with any state’s GDP, Health indicators, industrial growth and multifaceted development. If it is not moved in the prospective dimension, the devastation it causes can be precarious and unpredictable too. Our Indian higher education, which is the largest in the world with 70 million enrolments, 1000 plus different universities and 45000 HEI,s is not an exception to this widely proved doctrine. As UN- General Secretary commented, ‘The Present notable COVID-19 disaster has triggered history’s biggest disruption of education, affecting 1.6 billion students worldwide (70% of the world student population) and some 23.8 million students may not be able to return to schools to next year because of economic fallout’. ‘It is critical that education is at the heart of international solidarity’. (The Hindu, 09-08-2020). The Research and other forms of scholastic endeavors, which indeed are more consultative and collaborative in nature, have completely paused desperately at greater extent and caused on insurmountable obstacle. Unfortunately, as in most other developing and underdeveloped countries, in India too, there were no predetermined pathways to combat and compete with the perlious pandemic type cataclysmic circumstances. Still we should enshrine with huge hope to face and fight the unprecedented challenges thrown by the pandemic.