Manish Sisodia visits a school to check Covid-19 protocols as Delhi schools for classes 9, 11 reopens

Nearly 11 months after schools closed in mid-March last year, students of classes IX and XI returned to their classrooms on Friday.

While all government schools reopened for these classes on Friday, most private schools will do so only next week, using the extra couple of days to ensure their preparedness.

This is the second phase of reopening of schools in Delhi — they had already reopened for class X and XII students on January 18.

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who visited Government Girls Senior Secondary School in Gandhi Nagar on Friday to review the arrangements, said the gradual reopening of schools is a “sign of return to normalcy”.

“We cannot wait for ‘Zero Covid Case Day’ as it is necessary for us to adapt to



our new lives in this pandemic. Students of classes X and XII were able to strictly follow Covid-19 instructions given to them, due to which we are confident to reopen classes IX and XI as well. We are starting on a positive note that all our students will follow Covid-19 precautions and start to get back to their normal life… Parents had an optimistic reaction to the reopening of classes X and XII. We listened to their request and decided to reopen classes IX and XI as well. Our lives have slowly begun to get back on track. With reopening of the schools, we are hopeful that we will be able to face all the uncertain challenges ahead of us,” he said.

On Friday, 168 of 318 class IX students turned up at the school, while for class XI, it was 137 out of 233 students.