ITIs, Libraries, coaching centres gets permission to reopen in Raipur

It will be mandatory for the institutions to keep the entrance and exit doors separate with the operation that involves no human touch.

With drop-in coronavirus cases in the state, the Raipur district administration has allowed the reopening of skill training institutes, coaching centres and libraries. The institutions have been kept closed since mid-March last year due to the coronavirus outbreak and the nationwide lockdown imposed later to contain it. 

The district administration has however not given any date from which these public facilities will be allowed to resume operations in the Chhattisgarh capital. An official spokesperson of the Raipur administration said the district collector has issued an order permitting the reopening of skill training institutes (mostly ITIs), coaching centres and libraries with some conditions as the number of COVID-19 cases has dropped sharply in the state capital. The administration has, however, put some riders to ensure there is no spike in COVID-19 cases once these facilities reopen after more than 10 months.

Coaching centres and skill training institutes will have to give priority to online classes or distance learning as much as possible and only 50 per cent of the students would be allowed to attend classes on their premises, he said.
It will be mandatory for the institutions to keep the entrance and exit doors separate with the operation that involves no human touch, the spokesperson said.

The order has also put special emphasis on the regular and extensive sanitisation of premises and materials kept in coaching centres and skill training institutes. Exchange of laptops, notebooks and course materials will not be allowed. Canteen services in these institutions will remain closed as for now, it said, adding CCTVs will have to be installed to track suspected COVID-19 patients. The district authority guidelines prescribed strict adherence to social distancing norms in classrooms. Institutes will have to make arrangement for sanitisers, thermal screening and pulse oximeters, the order said. They will also have to keep personal record of people visiting the premises so that they can be contacted immediately if a person is found infected with COVID-19, it said. However, no skill training institute, coaching centre or library located in COVID-19 containment zones would be allowed to reopen, the order said. The order said strict action would be taken against those violating the COVID-19-related norms.

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