The state government's education department may have ambitious plans of starting the academic year with digital learning with the help from easily accessible mediums such as television and radio. However, its own data shows that nearly 16 per cent of students from state-board affiliated schools do not have access to any medium of communication. In fact, even in cities like Mumbai and Pune — 5 to 10 per cent of students have no access to any medium including television and radio.

The data collated by the state government's education department reveals the ground conditions and shows how executing digital learning is going to be a difficult task.