The unprecedented outbreak of Covid-19 has halted and impacted the lives of many across globe. The largest disruption of education system has been witnessed in human history and unanticipated closure of schools, and higher education institutions have significantly disturbed the traditional educational practices. Due to restrictions in movement and social distancing adherence physical classes, face to face teaching had to be stopped and alternative measures had to be looked into. To cope up with these disruptions, digital learning platforms emerged as an alternate parallel education system and definitely transformed the challenges of pandemic into opportunities. But what are the challenges which parents of primary school learners are facing due to this transformation is one of the concerns as well. The purpose of this study stems from the issues dealt by parents for online teaching and learning with a special focus on primary school learners’ parents. The study aims at view point of parents of primary classes learners in West Delhi region. Due to mobility restrictions responses are collected from parents through Google Forms. The research findings suggests the ease of acceptance of ‘new normal’ but adoption process is not an easy one especially for people who lack technological skills. The convenience of sharing learning materials is a boon and flexibility of time and geographical region is also appreciated by the parents. But on the other hand, quality and productivity are compromised owing to the barriers and challenges faced in digital learning process. Issues in context of digital learning needs to be addressed. Online classes posed a challenge towards parents during their working hours. This was due to Work from home meetings and online classes being held at the same times. This posed a major challenge to online learning with respect to primary school learning. Online classes did not have the same retaining power as offline mode of teaching It indicates that there is much need to understand the importance of collaboration for the sake of knowledge sharing.

Keywords: Covid 19, Digital Learning, Parents of Primary School Learners, Challenges of E-Learning.