A majority of parents in Maharashtra are still not willing to send their children to school, finds a recent survey. As another online academic year begins, and even though the new form of learning comes with issues like digital divide and other social and psychological effects on students, parents don’t want to risk their wards’ lives.

In the state, 70 per cent of the respondents don’t want to send their kids to school just yet. Of these, 45 per cent of parents want their children to get fully vaccinated against Covid-19 first, while 25 per cent want to wait for the cases to reduce to zero in their respective districts.