Tribune News Service Amritsar August 16 Keeping in view the Covid-19 situation latest SOPs and guidelines have been issued with regards to schools and colleges. Already most schools have got their teaching staff fully vaccinated by hosting camps. As far as the safety of students is concerned all schools are being cautious and if required we can continue classes in an online mode. We will consider all options according to the situation — Anita Bhalla Principal Bhavans SL Public School and secretary Sahodya School According to the new guidelines schools shall continue to open subject to the condition that only fully vaccinated or Covid-19 recovered teaching/ non-teaching staff will be allowed to be physically present on the premises. If positivity rate of the district increases from 0.2 per cent then the decision to close primary classes from Class IV and below will be taken accordingly. The option of online learning must be available to students. Similarly colleges coaching centres and all other institutes of higher learning shall continue to open subject to the condition that only fully vaccinated or Covid-19 recovered teaching staff or students are allowed to be present. The latest decision comes in the wake of increased positive cases being reported from across the state. Schools in the district have been reopened since two weeks and GNDU has commenced its offline classes from Monday onwards. Anita Bhalla Principal Bhavans SL Public School and secretary Sahodya School said: “Already most schools have got their teaching staff fully vaccinated by hosting camps. As far as the health safety of students is concerned all schools are being cautious and if required we can continue classes in an online mode. We will consider all options according to the situation.” Meanwhile the strength in primary classes is still running low as most parents are preferring online classes. Students from senior classes are reporting better attendance than those from pre-primary and primary ones.

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