The entire world is currently in lockdown because of Covid -19 pandemic. Every sector of the world is effected and business have adopted ways to work from home. But the situation in the education sector is worse. More than 91/ of world's student are out of school due to closure of educational institution in at least 188 countries. This leads to wide spread job and income loss along with the economic insecurity. The education sector is facing unprecedented challenges and needs to adopt and find solutions to keep children motivated and in their route to learn by use of technologies. On the other hand this pandemic has created oppertunities to explore the ways and possibilities of using open and distance learning by the use of technologies, but at the same time poses many challenges to overcome this problem. This review article is compiled with the objective to have insight of pandemic impact on the educational status.