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KOLKATA: The state government has set the ball rolling for setting up Safe Home facilities in the schools across Bengal that have been closed amid the Covid situation. The Commissioner of the School Education department AN Biswas has written to the District Magistrates to identify schools which can be used as Safe Homes and take measures for sanitising those on an immediate basis. So, the Education department has given priority to cleanliness and sanitisation of the schools before offering them as a Safe Home," a senior education official of South 24-Parganas district said. The department has asked the District Magistrates to treat this matter as extremely urgent. If we can offer some schools for Safe Homes, then patients with mild symptoms can be lodged there," an official of the Education department said..