Delhi schools under EDMC to reopen today

Parents are asked not to send their children to school if they are unwell or have a cough, cold or fever. The teacher concerned must be informed about the same.

Delhi School Reopening: Schools run by the East Delhi Municipal Corporation are all set to reopen from today, i.e. November 8, 2021, after a gap of over a year and a half. All primary schools, Pratibha Vidyalayas, aided and recognised schools under the EDMC reopens today. The civic body has decided to reopen schools with 50 per cent capacity. Meanwhile, amid the declining cases of the novel coronavirus, authorities at the north corporation and the south corporation had already issued orders earlier this week to reopen schools run by them from November 1.

Students are required to present parents’ consent in order to attend offline classes, according to a statement issued by the civic body. The schools have been directed to follow COVID-19 precautionary strictly in order to prevent the virus spread amid school reopening. Parents are asked not to send their children to school if they are unwell or have a cough, cold or fever. The teacher concerned must be informed about the same. In order to curb academic loss, the schools are directed to run both online and offline classes.

Chairman of EDMC’s Education Committee Rajiv Kumar said the teachers, who were deployed on Covid duties, have been relieved. He said vaccination centres operating at EDMC schools are either minimized or restricted in limited space. Schools have received special directions regarding cleanliness and sanitization as the schools are opening after about one-and-a-half years.

Hand sanitisers will be kept outside classrooms in the school premises and adequate arrangements of soap in toilets will be made. Cases vector-borne diseases are also increasing in the city, and in such a situation fogging is being done at all EDMC schools, and water tanks are being cleaned. To make sure that all these guidelines are being followed strictly, the school inspector has been given the responsibility to visit allotted schools for inspection.

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