After months of struggle, schools across the city have worked around solutions to connect with about 99 per cent of students in the absence of in-person classes. Of the 6.32 lakh students, about 5.32 lakh attend online classes, while nearly 95,000 are connected to schools through offline initiatives, shows data collated by the BMC. Schools have now been allowed to reopen from next week for Std VIII to XII. Earlier this year, over 60,000 students were shown not connected to online schooling.
According to numbers gathered by the BMC’s education department, a total of 4,448 students—about 0.7 per cent—are deprived of education as they are not able to connect with school, either online or through parent-teacher volunteers. Of these, 2,748 students have migrated out of the city. The data includes BMC as well as other schools in the city.