IIT Patna resumes offline operations, conducts mid-semester exams

At present, offline classes for second-year B-Tech and first-year MSc students will be conducted, the institute tweeted. 

Most of the premiere engineering institutions have started reopening campuses for offline classes amid the declining COVID-19 cases. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna has reopened the campus for offline operations. The institute has started with offline mid-semester examinations and it will conduct offline classes for second-year B-Tech and first-year MSc students. 

The institute took to Twitter to announce the same. It wrote, “In the process of resuming offline operations, IIT Patna has begun with in-person mid-semester examinations. At present, offline classes for second-year B-Tech and first-year M.Sc students will be conducted. #IITPatna #offlinemode” 

It further wrote, “And gradually the rest of the classes will be resumed to in-person mode. While Ph.D. students have been operating from departmental laboratories on campus since October 2021, this is after a long hiatus that the classrooms are seen to be adorned by undergraduate students.” “These in-person examinations seem to be the silver lining amidst the hopeless gloom brought forth by the covid-19 pandemic,” it added. 

Meanwhile, the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Patna has started calling students for offline classes. Classes of first-year BTech students began in physical mode from February 21 and classes of other courses will begin from March 21. The Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Allahabad is all set to open its campus for offline classes in a phased manner from March 1. IIIT Allahabad Director P Nagabhushan said they have called PhD, MTech and MBA students for offline classes at Jhalwa campus from March 1. “The students will have to bring an acceptance letter from their parents and will also need to execute an undertaking that they will not go back home till the end of the semester to ensure safety of the fellow students and their teachers,” he said. 

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