Offline school for Class 1 to 7 to restart in Pune from December 16th, Finally!

In Pune, municipal commissioner Vikram Kumar issued the order about the school reopening after detailed discussions with the state deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and divisional commissioner Saurabh Rao. Earlier, the schools were to restart from December 1, but in view of the threat of the Omicron variant of Covid, the decision was deferred till December 15.

As per the orders issued by the PMC commissioner, Class 1 to 7 of English and Marathi medium schools have been allowed to resume offline classes from Thursday.

As per the orders, school administrations should strictly follow Covid protocols and safety measures issued by the state government. All the teaching and non-teaching staff should be fully vaccinated and, if not, they should have done the RTPCR test 72 hours before. Also, it is mandatory to get parents’ consent from students to attend the offline classes in the school.

“In Pune, the vaccination is being done on a large scale, but the children are not yet vaccinated. So, it was earlier decided not to restart schools till December 15 and a review was taken today of the situation. Currently there is only one active Omicron patient in Pune city and we are closely monitoring all travellers coming from abroad. So, it has been decided to resume schools for Class 1 to 7 from December 16,” said Vikram Kumar.

Meanwhile, schools from the rural parts of the Pune district, which began offline teaching for class 1 to 4, have seen increased attendance.