IIT Kharagpur to resume offline classes from March

The institute had suspended offline classes amid an alarming surge in COVID-19 cases in January 2022. 

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur has announced that it will resume offline classes from March 2022. The institute had suspended offline classes amid an alarming surge in COVID-19 cases in January 2022. 

As per a report published in The Telegraph, the Technology Students’ Gymkhana carried out a survey to know how many students want to return to the campus. They will share the data with the IIT administration to help them fix slots for the students’ arrival and create quarantine facilities on the campus. 

IIT KGP mulls to start hybrid classes from April 

An official said the institute is also mulling to start hybrid classes from April this year. Hybrid classes incorporate a live streaming video of in-person class activities, which serve as a two-way conversation, integrating remote and in-person students through a single channel. 

Dhrubajyoti Sen, dean of students, IIT Kharagpur, said they would start calling undergraduate students from March according to seniority, starting with the ones in fourth year. He said, “Now COVID cases have come down to a single digit. The research scholars who enrolled last year and those who had left the campus following surge in cases will also be called back to the campus. The students who are coming have to be double vaccinated and they have to isolate themselves for three days on arrival.” 

IIEST to resume physical classes from February 16 

At the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) Shibpur, the authorities have asked students in the third and fourth year to arrive on the campus from February 16. “Students must produce a negative RT-PCR test report during entry, without which no one should be allowed to enter the campus,” said a notice signed by IIEST chief warden Sudipta Mukhopadhyay. 

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