Jadavpur University Teachers' Body writes to Bengal Education Minister to vaccinate students, reopen varsity
The JUTA in its letter mentioned that in the first phase, final year students can be allowed to attend physical classes in separate batches after administering vaccine jabs to them.
Jadavpur University Teachers' Association (JUTA) has written a letter to the West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu requesting him to take immediate steps for vaccinating students and researchers against COVID-19 to reopen the institute.
The JUTA in its letter mentioned that in the first phase, final year students can be allowed to attend physical classes in separate batches after administering vaccine jabs to them. It also requested him to allow the resumption of research activities in the varsity.
"We have demanded immediate COVID-19 vaccination for research scholars and students as a preparatory step for reopening the campus," JUTA general secretary Partha Pratim Roy told the media house.
While demanding to begin physical classes for students who have suffered academically for almost 18 months, the JUTA urged the minister to allow on-campus inoculation camps for those who have not received jabs. Roy further said that online teaching cannot be an alternative to physical classes and laboratory-based subjects cannot be taught through virtual mode.
"You might be aware that instruments are lying idle at our university’s laboratories for a long time. Many are no longer functioning properly. If these high-value instruments are not used, it leads to a loss of lakhs of rupees, which is a sheer wastage of public money," the teachers' body said in the letter to Basu.
Meanwhile, a group of JU students owing allegiance to SFI and other unions held a protest in front of the administrative building of the varsity, demanding reopening the campus and shouted slogans against the authorities.
Presidency University Students' Union has also requested the authorities and asked them to put on-campus vaccination for free.
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