Gandhinagar: After giving an offline education for class 9 to 11 more than a month ago, the Government Gujarat on Wednesday announced that the school would also be open to grade 6 to 8 of September 2 with a capacity of 50 percent and parents’ approval.
Previously, with the case of Covid-19 daily in the state down and after giving permission to universities, polytechnics and grade 12 students, the state government has enabled offline education for grade 9 to 11 from July 26.
Similar to SOP issued for colleges and polytechnics, and high school, elementary schools that do offline education must conduct education with a capacity of 50% and must be strictly following Covid guidelines.
The state government also mandated education institutions to get prior approval from parents of students present.
Attendance has also been made voluntary.
“The cabinet meeting held today Chudasama, Gujarat Education Minister.” More than 30,000 government schools and grants and 10,000 private schools where more than 32 lakh children learn will start offline education in Gujarat, “Chudasama added.