Since the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools in the world were forced to shift their activities into an online mode in order to continue learning during school closures. While in some countries shift to online learning revealed a potential for innovation in school education, in other countries, it had exacerbated existing problems in the school system and accelerated the education inequality. India having the second-largest school system in the world, where about 260 million students are studying in over 1.5 million schools probably is an exemplary case of how COVID-19 restrictions affected different groups of schoolchildren.
