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One of the biggest casualties of the Covid pandemic and the resultant lockdown has been institutionalized education. Schools and colleges have been shut to prevent the spread of the virus and this has given way to online classrooms, a very new concept in India even for the most sophisticated schools. The Educational institutions and students across the world have accepted and appreciated the online platform of learning. The reasons of this acceptability are ease of use, learning flexibility and controllable environment. The students during the pandemic situation is facing heavy risks like network issues, distraction during the classes especially with family and possibly with young siblings. Some students don’t even have electronic devices such as computers and mobile phones. The number of these devices in households is often limited which can be very inconvenient for online appointments, classes and meetings that take simultaneously. The main objective of the study is to determine the perception of students towards online learning during the lockdown and to analyse the global trend of using the online learning resources among the students. The present study includes both primary and secondary data. The simple random sampling is used for collecting the respondents and overall, of 160 respondents are collected by issuing the questionnaire. The current study emphasizes that the students are enriched with new technology updates and it makes them more flexible and comfortable. This study concludes that online learning platform made student connect to the staffs in easier form and made comfortable to engage with other fellow students too.

Covid, pandemic, educational institution, resources.