NEW DELHI: Several states have decided to loosen Covid restrictions and reopen schools for in-person classes amid reports that infections from the coronavirus and Omicron had plateaued in India and would now slide down.
The Karnataka government on Saturday decided to allow schools to reopen in Bengaluru urban from Monday. “The Covid positivity rate in the state has come down from 33% last week to 20.9% as of Saturday,” revenue minister R Ashoka said. The government closed schools from January second week after cases started to surge across Karnataka. Schools across the state reopened last week, but remained closed in Bengaluru urban as its positivity rate was above 5%.
Telangana has decided to reopen all educational institutions from February 1, education minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy said on Saturday. This was done after the Telangana HC asked state government on Friday to explain its plan to reopen schools, but keep colleges closed.
In Pune, schools and colleges will reopen from February 1, said deputy CM Ajit Pawar on Saturday. But school hours will be halved for at least a week for classes 1-8.
A similar order was issued in Uttarakhand to let schools open for classes 10-12 from Monday, but many parents weren’t happy because Covid-19 infections have not gone down in the hill state and most government teachers are occupied with assembly election duty.
States like Jharkhand are contemplating reopening schools. A proposal to this effect was sent to the state disaster management authority, school education secretary Rajesh Sharma said. “We will send a fresh proposal seeking reopening of classes 1 to 12.”
(Inputs from Bengaluru, Pune, Dehradun and Ranchi)
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NEW DELHI: Several states have decided to loosen Covid restrictions and reopen schools for in-person classes amid reports that infections from the coronavirus and Omicron had plateaued in India and would now slide down. The Karnataka government on Saturday decided to allow schools to reopen in Bengaluru urban from Monday. “The Covid positivity rate in the state has come down from 33% last week to 20.9% as of Saturday,” revenue minister R Ashoka said. The government closed schools from January second week after cases started to surge across Karnataka. Schools across the state reopened last week, but remained closed in Bengaluru urban as its positivity rate was above 5%. Telangana has decided to reopen all educational institutions from February 1, education minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy said on Saturday. This was done after the Telangana HC asked state government on Friday to explain its plan to reopen schools, but keep colleges closed. In Pune, schools and colleges will reopen from February 1, said deputy CM Ajit Pawar on Saturday. But school hours will be halved for at least a week for classes 1-8. A similar order was issued in Uttarakhand to let schools open for classes 10-12 from Monday, but many parents weren’t happy because Covid-19 infections have not gone down in the hill state and most government teachers are occupied with assembly election duty. States like Jharkhand are contemplating reopening schools. A proposal to this effect was sent to the state disaster management authority, school education secretary Rajesh Sharma said. “We will send a fresh proposal seeking reopening of classes 1 to 12.” (Inputs from Bengaluru, Pune, Dehradun and Ranchi)FacebookTwitterLinkedinEMail