Kolkata: Almost all teachers and non-teaching staff members in schools and schools assisted by the government in Kolkata have been fully vaccinated.
The Department of School Education also conducted special camps at the Institutes to vaccinate more than 3,000 teachers and city private school staff who have not received their second dose.
Drives tend to end on weekends.
Of the 3.5 lakh teachers in Bengal, around 50,000 have not received their second dose.
In the midst of talks about the possibility of reopening educational institutions after the Festival season provides a low Covid number, the Department of School Education has set a target to fully vaccinate all its teachers.
In June, the Bengali government had told vaccination drives for school teachers and staff for the government, assisted the government and private schools in Kolkata and Bengal.
“We have been looking for detail from school in vaccination requirements.
The details have been sent,” said an official.
A senior official shows that inoculation programs to manage the first dose of teaching and non-teaching staff in Kolkata and the district are taken in June.
The Ministry of Education has recently prepared a complete database of teachers who have not received their second shot.
“Before bringing students back to campus, we aim to vaccinate all teacher and non-teaching staff at school,” he said.
Sougata Basu, Secretary General, the West Bengal Government School Association, said, “This could be resolved previously having a gap between two covishield not revised to 84 days.
Now, when the center talks about vaccines for children, we hope secondary and upper middle students too Can be inoculated before reopening.
“At the DPS Ruby Park, the vaccination drive has been carried out for the past three days.
“We thank the state government of their initiative to vaccinate all private-teaching and non-teaching staff who are free of charge.
Apart from bad weather, beneficiaries come for their second dose.
Our school is the center for the last three days,” said a person Official.
Jadavpur Vidyapith Headmaster Parimal Bhattacharya said, “All of our teaching and non-teaching school staff were vaccinated.
Very few are waiting for their second dose but they are given a vaccine by the department in the first week of September.
We are waiting for government notice to be reopened.”