By: Poulami Roy Kolkata: The State Education Department on Thursday issued a set of guidelines for schools, colleges and universities, paving the way for institutions to open offline classes in mid-November.
While institutions must regulate the isolation space for students who fall ill on campus, teachers and professors will be assigned roles and responsibilities to ensure staff and students adhere to the Covid protocol and safety norms.
The standard operating procedure (SOP) calls for classes in the school to be held in two sessions, morning and evening.
Classrooms must be numbered with revised seating settings to ensure adequate distance.
If there is a provision to accuse three students on the bench, only two will be allowed to sit at both ends, followed by one person in the middle of the next line.
Minister of Chief Justice of Mamata Banerjee previously showed that steps must be taken for educational institutions to reopen for classes on campus on November 16.
After the SOP was released on Thursday, several heads of private educational institutions said they would help them improve and resolve their reopening process too.
The rules are determined that meetings of online parents will be held to communicate DOS and prohibitions and behaviors that are suitable for students, both on campus and at home.
It includes wearing the right size mask and right at any time and avoid physical contact with classmates.
Sports and other co-curricular activities will remain suspended.
While thermal checks will be carried out, Guardian will be asked not to send their wards to school if they are fever, runny nose or other diseases.
Such students will be asked to stay at home for at least a week before physically returning to school.
Class teachers have been entrusted to record this.
The emphasis was also placed on the prevention of crowding at the gate before school began and after ending that day.
Students must clean their hands at the entrance.
The assembly in the school field will be suspended; The opposite prayer will be held in the classroom.
SOP has placed the sanititis protocol for campus, including classrooms, laboratories, small rooms, and other public use areas.
For colleges and universities, SOP does not spell student needs to be vaccinated to attend classes in place.
The sanitation regimen will be the same as the school.
Everyone on campus must be closed.
Thermal checks will also be carried out at the gate and those who display Covid symptoms will be asked to be assessed clinically before being allowed to campus.
Institutions must also regulate insulation and quarantine facilities or bind with health facilities so that they can provide health support to those who test positively.
All institutions are also asked to regularly monitor the health of students, faculties and staff.
All activities, such as cultural functions, sports and study tours will remain suspended.
Outsiders will be limited from entering the campus.
To increase the resilience and mental health, the teacher has been asked to encourage students to share their feelings with friends, teachers and parents but prevent sharing anything directly, material learning and food.