Maharashtra Education minister Varsha Gaikwad visits schools and interacts with students of classes 5 to 8

Amid covid-19, schools for students of classes 5 to 8 have reopened on Wednesday in Maharashtra, and the state’s school education minister Varsha Gaikwad visited some of the schools and interacted with the students.

In most parts of Maharashtra, the classes for students of 5 to 8 resumed on Wednesday, after ten long months, keeping in mind covid-19 SOPs.

The state’s education minister traveled to a



Zilla Parishad school in Mhalunge village under Maval tehsil of Pune district, around 200km from here, and interacted with parents as well as teachers and students, an official statement said here, as reported by PTI.

She also visited a couple of other schools in the Pune district, it said. She was accompanied by the commissioner for school education Vishal Solanki and CEO of Pune ZP Ayush Kumar among others, the statement said.