Bengaluru: School and Pre-Universities (PU) Universities here and in other districts in Karnataka where the covid test level of less than two percent is reopened for grade 9-12 students on Monday after a five-month gap.
The Chairman of the Minister of Basavaraj S Bommai equalized the reopening to the freedom to students from Covid-19.
“Students are very happy.
It seems, they have today’s freedom from Covid-19.
August 15 is celebrated as a freedom for the country but for our students from the ninth class, tenth, 11 and 12 it is real freedom for them with opening.
School,” Bommai told reporters after visiting several schools in the city.
He said students face many problems in online classes such as communication and network problems but here in physical classes, they can interact with their teachers better.
Apart from teaching and better understanding, students are happy that they are now with their friends, the head minister said.
Bommai told the teacher, staff and students to follow the Norma Covid-19.
“There will be an expert committee meeting at the end of the month.
Seeing the situation, we will receive a call on two things – one about the border district and the second is a class for the first class to the eighth standard,” the minister’s chairman was explained.
At an event here, Bommai said that if the reopening of the school became a success, August 23 will be celebrated as the same education day as September 5 was observed as a teacher’s day.
He also said that today it was important because it would free children from Covid-19.
The government decided to start classes from Monday on the recommendation of the Technical Advisory Committee in Covid-19.
TAC said that teachers and other staff in schools and PU colleges must be vaccinated first.
Furthermore, he said the classroom must be disanited, the social distance and hand hygiene must be maintained and everyone must wear masks mandatory.
Minister of Education and Secondary Education B C Nagesh visited several schools in the city and interacted with students.
The government decided not to reopen PU schools and colleges in Hassan, Chikkamagaluru, Kodagu, Dakshina Kannada and Mysore as the covid-19 participant above two percent in this district, government sources said.
In the direction of the minister of chairman, the ministers responsible district visited several schools in their respective districts on Monday.
In November 2020, college degrees opened and later in January 2021, 10 and pre-university colleges opened for a short time.
The experiment cannot continue during the second wave has hit the state and Karnataka is one of the worst affected countries that reported more than 50,000 cases and around 500 deaths every day.