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Covid-19 pandemic, no doubt has affected all spheres of human life but highly impacted the field of education worldwide . All education institutes get closed due to lockdown so that there will be no chance ofspreading viral infection among students which leads to jeopridising of whole education system. The consequence of this that there was sudden change in whole education system and due to these changes educational institutes are forced to shift from traditional teaching to online platforms to minimise the academic loss. Yet the success and effectiveness of online education is on questionmark in developing countries like india where the digital divide of society poses a seriouss challenge. The present research paper focus to study the perception of secondary school students towards online education. This paper wants to investigate the answers of research questions like what kind of benefits and challenges faced by secondary school students in online education, how was their attitude towards online teaching and what kind of remedial measures can be adopted to overcome the challenges faced by them in online education in pandemic . For this the sample includes 52 secondary school students from 7 schools comprising both private and government schools in kathua through purposive sampling who takes education in online mode. The tool for data collection consists of self constructed questionaaire by using google form. The findings of the study are online improved technical skills of students, material is available 24x 7hrs, flexible in nature, guidance and counselling is needed to stay motivated , it saves the students from risk of transmission of covid- 19 , students don't believe online classroom can replace traditional classroom teaching.