COVID-19 Impact: Educational Institutions in Himachal Pradesh to remain shut until April 6

Schools having residential facilities need not close their hostels, however, they would have to comply with all the standard operating procedures to keep the residential areas cut off and appoint a ‘compliance officer’ to ensure all orders are followed.

The Himachal Pradesh government has directed all the educational institutions including universities, colleges, technical institutes and schools to remain shut till April 4 as a precautionary measure to contain the recent spike in coronavirus cases in the state. 

As per the decision taken during a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur here, classrooms will remain open for students who are giving their exams during this period. Some primary schools in the state were already closed due to the COVID-19 threat and will continue to remain so till the end of next week.

The chief minister said schools having residential facilities need not close their hostels, however, they would have to comply with all the standard operating procedures to keep the residential areas cut off and appoint a ‘compliance officer’ to ensure all orders are followed.

Thakur further said, teachers, and other school and college staff will continue to attend the institutions. No social and cultural events will be organised in the state by the government and public gatherings will be restricted to a maximum of 200 people indoors and 50 per cent for outdoor events.

Thakur said nursing and medical institutions would continue to function as usual. He said congregations and ‘langars’ inside temples are banned but ‘darshans’ would be allowed.

The chief minister said there would be no public celebration of Holi and urged people to celebrate the festival at their home with family members. Thakur said all frontline workers would be sensitised to get themselves vaccinated at the earliest completing their second dose according to schedule.

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