Informal Classes For Students Of 12 And Undergraduate Final Year In Assam from 15 of September

Assam Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday that the Grade 12 and final year undergraduate program will start on 15 September with an informal and experimental way. Speaking at a press conference here, he said the informal classes that will be in until 30 September but will be terminated if a student or teacher COVID-positive tests in between.

“The principal or the head will make a four-five small groups, to come and interact with the teacher in the classroom is not official,” said Sarma. “In elementary school or middle-small primary, children now come once a week to collect the midday meal.

From September 15, they will come twice a week and teachers will submit the study materials along with the question paper to submit next week, “he said. The teacher will evaluate the student’s answer sheet in front of and willingness to give the task for the next week, he said.

“Teachers have to come from September 1 and will oversee the proper sanitisation of their institutions. We organize funding for it and will be sent to them in the next few days,” said Sarma.

“The teachers will rearrange tables and benches so social norms followed by the correct distance. We also strive to provide free masks for students and arrange funds for it,” he added.

All educational institutions in the state were closed since March after the government enforced strict measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. minister, however, said schools and colleges, which housing quarantine or isolation facility at the moment, not to be opened. He said the government has extended the deadline for the RT-PCR test mandatory for teachers to 15 September the Minister also stated that from 1 September, teachers will be required to take online classes from each educational institution.

Answering questions about the NEET and JEE, Sarma said Assam will follow the direction of Center as COVID-19 is a national disaster and New Delhi have experts to decide on the safety of students.