Nagpur: About 400 schools in the city are expected to welcome students back to classrooms from Monday, in line with permission from the authorities that allow the same thing.
This will be the first time this academic session that the city school will host an offline class.
Before this, schools only in rural areas (STD VIII-XII) were allowed to operate.
While the city school gets the same concessions, the countryside also gets permission to start STD V-VII.
According to information received from Vaishali Jamdar, Deputy Director of Education (Nagpur Division), 426 schools can be reopened from Monday.
From this, 353 is a private school, while the rest is run by NMC, said Jamdar.
District education officials hold video conferencing with schools and advise them on standard operating procedures (SOP) to be followed.
Chintaman Vanjari, Nagpur District Education Officer, said, “School has been briefed and all safety protocols will be followed.” Because schools in rural areas have functions for almost three months now, education officials believe that it will not be a big challenge.
A junior education officer, who coordinated with the school, said, “All principals interact with each other in the whatsapp group of their school associations.
Some are in the countryside, some in urban areas, so that everyone learns from others.
For the department, the school experience Operating in rural areas there are there, therefore there is nothing wrong in expecting a smooth transition.
“Many more schools will be reopened later in a week or posting the celebration season.
Ashnarayan Tiwari, Principal Adarsh ​​Vidya Mandir (Gandhibagh), said, “We will open a day later because on Monday we have scheduled a meeting with all stakeholders.” There are many like Tiwari who first tried to complete the reopening formality such as sanitization, giving direction of all staff to protocols etc.
The principal from the grant school said this time, the reopening was not a big challenge.
“We are all open in the last academic session.
In fact, we have a long-open spell reopened from November, before everything was closed when the second wave hit us.
Every school has experience in reopening and the staff are trained to handle all SOPs,” said the principal .
Although there are more than 1,500 private schools in Nagpur, not all have STD IX-XII classes.
“Some have only primary parts or higher levels registered under separate integrated district information about school education figures (UDISE),” said an educational official.
Ude is like aadhaar number for school.
“Therefore, the reopening number may be lacking but technically we cannot reopen 100% because the class level is not in the school,” the official said.