Shift wise classes, no assembly: Stage set to reopen schools in Kashmir

Srinagar: The government is mulling to reopen schools from the first week of June to prevent further academic loss to the students in the Kashmir valley.

Principal Secretary, School Education, Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon told The Kashmir Monitor that the government has ordered to complete the renovation of the schools by the end of this month and start classes from June.

“We are planning to throw schools open in the first week of June to prevent further academic loss to the students,” he said.

Besides, he said virtual classes, tele-classes, and radio lectures will continue until schools reopen. “We have also distributed around 60 thousand books to the students and 1200 tablets loaded with offline video lectures. All the required study material will be given to the students who don’t have access to the smartphones,” he added.

In a government order accessed by The Kashmir Monitor, Samoon has directed all the heads of the institutions to whitewash all the school buildings belonging to the school education department before the opening of schools.

“The school buildings will be whitewashed out of the maintenance fund earmarked in the budget 2020-2021,” the order read.