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Abstract: The impact of pandemic COVID-19 has drastically disrupted everywhere in the words as well as India. The education system of the world including India is very badly affected by the spread of COVID pandemic. It has imposed the global lockdown creating an adverse effect on around 0.29 billion students from India. In several education systems such as school, colleges and universities have stopped face-to-face teaching-learning and moved towards the online. The academic year 2020 has already been lost by students but fear is that losing the academic year 2021. Despite all these problems, the education sector of India has foughtby reacting positively and managed to conduct online education to continue learning-teaching, research and some other services with new technical tools and digitalization. Due to the corona pandemic, Indian education sectors are implementing new perspectives, many new trends of teaching- learning, the same may go on as we move ahead to a new tomorrow. This paper highlights some positive and negative impacts COVID-19 pandemic on the education sector of India and some fruitful suggestions are also noted to continue the educational activities during the lock-down situation.Keywords: COVID-19, Education, India, Impact, digital civilization.