‘Final-year students to attend’

‘Final-year students to attend’

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad:12.11.2020

While the government has allowed medical, paramedical and postgraduate students to attend physical classes, in the case of undergraduate courses, including engineering, only final-year students will be allowed to attend classes. The move is to minimize the risk of Covid-19 infection as it will immensely reduce the class strength and help in taking social distancing precautions.

Himanshu Pandya, vicechancellor of Gujarat University said they are planning to take written consent from parents before allowing the students to attend college.

“After careful consideration we have taken the decision to reopen undergraduate level colleges only for final-year students. In case of PG courses, the number students are anyway very less in comparison, so social distancing measures can be taken care of,” said Anju Sharma, principal secretary, higher education.

Sudhir Nanavaty, president of Gujarat State Higher Education in Colleges said that when all other activities have slowly opened up, it was time for educational institutions to re-open.

“For undergraduate courses, the classroom strength can be reduced to one-third as only final year students are allowed to attend,” Nanavati said.