Schools across Odisha reopened on Monday for the students of classes 10 a🥃nd 12 with adherence to Covid-19 guidelines.
The government has decided to continue online classes and it is not mandatory for students to attend physi🐷cal🎶 classes.
Classes for the standard 10 and 12 students were suspended in the w🐈ake of the second wave🐻 of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Prior to reopening of the schools, classrooms and other spaces have been sanitised while teaching and non-teaching staff have been adm𝄹inistered with both doses of the vaccines, an official sai🦂d.
Though the schools reopened, it is not mandato𒐪ry for students to atten🐈d physical classes.
Attending schools will be the ꧒decision𝐆 of the students and their guardians, the official said.
The government 💦has decided to continue online classes for the students who don't attend phys༒ical classes for some reason or the other, he said.
Physical classes are held from 10 am to 1.30 pm, asღ per the standard operating procedure (SOP) issued by the School and Mas🔥s Education Department.
Each school now has an isolation room for students and staff who show any symptoms of COVID-19. Adeq🉐uate soap and runnin♈g water have been made available in all washrooms of the schools. Hand sanitiser has been mandatorily kept for teachers, students and staff in each classroom.
While wearing masks is a must for each student and staff, special seating arrangements have been made to maintain social distance in classrooms. The students will get a fixe🐈d seat in each class, according to the SOP.
As the schools rꦛeopened, all the teachers, students and staff who entered into campus underwent thermal screening. Students have been advised not to bring food with ♈them.
Odisha’s School and Mass Education Minister S R Dash said a detailed SOP has also been issued for hostel operations and noda💖l officers have been sent to each distr🉐ict to ensure that the Covid-19 protocols are being followed.
All government and private schools except those located in containment zones and Kendrapara town reopened Monday. The 🎃schools remain closed in Kendrapara because of the imposition of prohibitory order till July 30 following the death of💎 a gangster in police encounter late last week.
The state governme𝓡nt is also planning to reopen schools for classes 9 and 11 from August 16 and September 15 respectively. The classes for class 11 students will be held from September 15 after completion of admission into Plus II courses෴, the minister said.
Dash 🎀said the decision t😼o reopen schools is taken after significant improvement in the corona situation in the state.
(PTI inputs)
