Education
West Bengal government commences summer vacations for students from today
The government of West Bengal has decided to commence the summer vacations for school students in the state from today, April 20, in view of the rise in Covid-19 cases across the state in the past few weeks.
The state government has decided to prepone the summer vacations in the state this year due to the Covid-19 surge across the country. Usually, the summer break in the state is commenced from May across all the schools.
West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said, “Due to the present COVID-19 situation, we are forced to prepone the summer vacation. The education department will issue necessary notifications today.”
The schools have been shut in West Bengal once again, soon after the resumption of physical classes in the state. The students of classes 9 to 12 had started attending offline classes in the state from mid-February due to the upcoming board exams.
Teachers test positive for Covid-19
The education minister of the state has said that he would also urge private schools to follow suit and prepone the summer vacations. The decision comes amid reports of many teachers in schools testing positive in the past two months.
The headmaster of a state-run school in Jadavpur, however, told PTI that online classes will continue for students of Class 10 and 12 during the vacation “or the early phase of the vacation” so that students don’t suffer any sort of academic loss.
Education Minister Partha Chatterjee had also announced a few months ago that the board exams for Class 10 and Class 12 students in the state will be conducted in June this year, for the health and safety of all the students and staff.
Many states have postponed their board exams for this academic year and have plans to conduct them in the month of May or June due to the current spike in Covid-19 cases across the country. A lot of states have not announced the final dates of the board exams yet.
Haryana Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal shared that the construction work of six nursing colleges in the state will be completed soon and classes will commence in the month of July. Not only this, the new building of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Panchkula has also completed its construction work.
Adding on to this, he shared that, till now, the classes are being held in another building, the chief secretary said while presiding over the review meeting of development projects worth more than Rs 100 crore here.
CHIEF SECRETARY REVIEWED MAJOR PROJECTS
The Chief Secretary reviewed several major projects, including power, health, medical, and technical education in the state, and directed the concerned officials to complete them within the stipulated time period.
COLLEGES UNDER CONSTRUCTION
He said that the construction of nursing colleges in Dherdu village of Kaithal, Khedi Ram Nagar village of Kurukshetra, Kheranwali village of Panchkula, Aura and Dayalpur village of Faridabad, and Sadatpur village of Rewari is under construction.
The construction work of Medical college in Koriawas in Narnaul, Medical College at Jind, Bhiwani, and Dental College at Nalhar is being completed at a fast pace. The work of the second phase of Kalpana Chawla Medical College is also undergoing.
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