COVID-19 Crisis: Manish Sisodia seeks suggestions over reopening of Delhi schools, colleges

The government commenced the classes for senior students in a staggered manner between January and February before suspending the same again due to the second wave in the Capital.

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on July 28, 2021, invited suggestions from parents and teachers, and other stakeholders regarding the reopening of schools and colleges in the city. Amid the increasing cases of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools and colleges in the national capital have been closed since March last year. The government commenced the classes for senior students in a staggered manner between January and February before suspending the same again due to the second wave in the Capital. However, in his latest tweet, Sisodia stated that due to the reduced COVID-19 caseload and academic losses, many parents and students have expressed queries related to the reopening of schools.

Sisodia during a press briefing on Wednesday afternoon said, “Over 500,000 parents attended the ongoing parent-teacher meetings in Delhi government schools. During my visit to many of these schools, parents and teachers expressed interest in knowing if educational institutions will reopen anytime soon. They also wanted to know that if schools were to reopen, how we would go about it. Before the government takes any decision on the matter, we want to hear suggestions from parents and teachers on the matter.”

Seeking response from parents, teachers and students, the education minister asked them to share their suggestions in a 100-word email to delhischools21@gmail.com and government officials would deliberate on the suggestions put forward by the people. The minister said, “We have teachers express concerns over academic losses. Even college students reach out to us saying that they have missed out on college life for over a year and their “campus life” has been limited to a room in their homes. This is why we are asking everyone to send in their suggestions to us on the matter.”

With the decreasing number of novel coronavirus cases, data released by the health department suggest that Covid-19 cases in the Capital have remained under 100 for the past few weeks with a positivity rate of less than 1% for the past two months.

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