The world is experiencing a strange and painful phase of life since the outbreak of Corona virus throughout. It has crippled the normal life by forcing people to shut themselves within their homes. Education sector suffered with closed institutions and suspended teaching and learning processes. Traditional face-to-face education is slowly becoming the dream of the past. New educational processes, of course a few of them have been in vogue for a quite a long period in some developed countries, are stepping in different countries under the sun. This thematic paper tries to enumerate the impact of technology on education especially in India, and justify the need for transformation to digital learning from the age old face-to-face education. Some light is thrown on what digital learning is about. Benefits, various challenges and obstacles of digital learning and how it transforming is the education system in India are touched upon. Salient features of NEP 2020 find a place connecting the transformation. Finally the responsibilities of stakeholders are reminded.

Keywords : digital learning, transformation, benefits and challenges, responsibilities of stakeholders.