An official of the education department said colleges and universities that follow the semester choice-based credit-based (CBCS) systems from 2018, would get the summer break between the dissolution of classes in the second week of May and internal and end-semester examinations in June.
West Bengal colleges to curtail summer break to makeup for academic loss
Several Residential colleges and institutes in West Bengal have decided to curtail the summer recess to make up for the academic loss caused due to COVID-19 induced lockdown.
An official of the education department said colleges and universities that follow the semester choice-based credit-based (CBCS) systems from 2018, would get the summer break between the dissolution of classes in the second week of May and internal and end-semester examinations in June.
As per the reports, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur, plans to give study leave for a week before the start of the in-person end-semester examination in June. Vidyamandira, in the pre-pandemic times, used to have a month-long summer recess in June. Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, too has decided to cut down its month-long summer recess. Here too the students will have a week-long study leave before the in-person offline examinations are conducted over June and July.
NIT Durgapur has decided to reduce its two-month-long summer break for the first-year students to a three-week recess because the session had started from mid-December following the Covid pandemic-induced delay, as reported by TelegraphIndia.
Meanwhile, in the wake of the prevailing heat wave conditions, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday urged the state education minister to announce the onset of summer vacation in schools and colleges from May 2. She stated that it will also protect children from chances of contracting COVID-19, if there was a surge in infections in Bengal, as was the case in some other states.
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