Hyderabad: Telangana Chief minister Mr K Chandrasekhar Rao has called the cabinet meeting on August 5 in which possibilities to reopen schools from first week of September are likely to be explored.
The first thing that the government wanted to shut down when the coronavirus outbreak hit the country in the second week of March was schools and colleges as the conditions at educational institutes are highly prone to this kind of viral infections.
Although schools remained closed since then, the shutdown came as a vacation as it was almost at the end of the academic year. The annual and semester end examinations were also over for some classes by that time. But this time it’s going to be a longer vacation as the government is planning to reopen schools and colleges only in the second of July, a month later than the usual start of the academic year in June.
The class 10 exams remained unfinished and the government announced that all students up to class 9 will be automatically promoted to their next class without examinations.
The SSC exams are scheduled to begin from June 8 under strict safety measures.
“Reopening schools at this point in time may create serious problems,” opined the officials and teacher MLCs. The Telangana state council of education research and training (SCERT) has prepared a report on the reopening of schools, on which education department special chief secretary Chitra Ramachandran held a discussion with the officials on Wednesday.
During the meeting, a consensus has come up on some issues like schools should be openeed only in the second week of July and that too in a phased manner. The officials have reportedly suggested that only teachers and administrative staff should go first for a week or so. By observing the situation, then gradually classes will be reopened, the officials decided.
The higher classes – 8th, 9th and 10th will open first and then the upper primary and the primary sections in the last phase, the meeting opined.
However, the SCERT will implement its plan only according to the guidelines to be issued by the national council of education research and training (NCERT). The state education minister Sabitha Indra Reddy also convened a meeting with the secretary and other officials this weekend to decide on a plan of action for the start of the academic year 2020-21.
A final decision will be taken only after discussing the matter with education experts, teachers representatives and parents groups, an official said.
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