Sikkim: Education institutes will re-open from 1st July

Educational institutes will re-open from 1st July from standard 9 onwards till university. Last time it was decided that from 15 June it will reopen but looking at the current situation as one case positive case of COVID- 19 was reported last week.

Most of the schools have been converted into facility quarantines and will take some time to prepare it but we have told the authority to vacate all the schools before 15 June as from 15 June onwards school staff and teachers has to go to schools. Teachers have to make more sections in order to maintain distance among the students.

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We will need more teachers if we increase the number of sections and for that, we have decided to outsource graduate teachers from the nearest Junior Schools it was informed by Additional Chief Secretary GP Upadhaya. There will be one bench one student pattern in all schools.

Last week the education department has decided to reopen the schools, colleges, and universities.

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