Telangana Govt. Mulls Reopening Educational Institutes Amid Rising COVID Cases

Telangana government is mulling to reopen schools and colleges amid rising infections of the novel Coronavirus in the state. Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao announced that a long-term strategy would be prepared and executed to strengthen the government educational institutions.

Rao has instructed officials to hold a meeting with educationists and experts to enlist their opinions on the reopening of educational institutes. Officials have also decided to follow the guidelines issued by the UGC, AICTE, and other institutions in the aftermath of Corona regarding the administration of the educational institutions- conducting examinations, and the syllabus.

The government has likewise chosen to begin the scholastic year for the designing course from August 17. According to guidelines, the assessments will be led for the last year understudies and rest will be advanced based on past exhibitions. In the interim, the legislature is getting ready to



consolidate entrance tests plans with the goal that the understudies won't lose their scholastic year. 

"Better in the event that we proceed onward. We don't have the foggiest idea when we get the COVID immunization convenient. It would be better on the off chance that we start UG, PG, and Engineering scholarly years, or, in all likelihood it might prompt zero scholastic years. We should return to another typical. Every single instructive establishment we can continue aside from pre-essential, essential, and optional instructive organizations. What's more, we are likewise hanging tight for the administration's green sign," Said Revathi, Principal of Sanskriti Educational foundations.

However, the government will soon decide on when the educational institutes would reopen. So far, Telangana has reported a high number of Covid-19 cases- 41,018 since the pandemic emerged in the State. Among them, 27,295 were discharged while 13,328 are undertaking treatment.