Investigating the Lack of Digital Infrastructure and Internet Accessibility in Remote Regions as Barriers to National Education Policy Success.

The NEP 2020 aims to revolutionize Indian education through digital integration.Still, achieving this largely hinges on bridging the digital gap.This study looks into how lacking infrastructure in rural areas affects the policy's key goals of fairness and inclusion.It reviews secondary data from numerous scholarly sources, government reports, and NGO datasets to understand the current state of hardware, internet reliability, and teacher readiness.The key findings highlight a major gap between plans and reality, due to issues like power cuts, high data costs, and lack of maintenance in remote schools, leading to 25-30% hardware failure without local support.Recommendations suggest moving towards decentralized maintenance centers and 'offline-first' digital resources to tackle connectivity problems.The paper spots a crucial research gap in long-term data, focusing on digital impacts on learning poverty and the unique challenges in Himalayan and tribal regions.Lastly, it shows that without local technical support and affordable data, digital efforts could unintentionally increase socio-economic gaps.