Universities, faculties to stay shut from Jan 10: Odisha authorities

By Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: After suspending offline courses in faculties, the State authorities on Friday introduced closure of all faculties, universities and technical training establishments throughout Odisha from January 10 in view of the alarming surge in Covid-19 circumstances. Classes, although, will proceed in on-line mode.

Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) PK Jena mentioned all increased academic establishments, besides medical and nursing faculties and different establishments below the management of the Health and Family Welfare division will stay closed. The establishments will take acceptable measures to conduct on-line courses or different different strategies of studying.

Hostels may even stay closed from January 10. Jena, nevertheless, mentioned that students, researchers and college students who want to remain in a hostel for analysis, undertaking works or different tutorial actions could also be permitted after they furnish endeavor to stick to Covid pointers to authorities involved.

All departments involved have been requested to convey out detailed SOP, pointers and circulars to this impact. All ongoing offline examinations might be allowed to proceed as per schedule with strict compliance to Covid acceptable behaviour. Besides, educating and non-teaching staff of faculties, universities and technical establishments will work as per new pointers issued for presidency servants.

Coaching establishments, organisations and people providing teaching companies to college students have additionally been requested to not run courses in bodily mode. The SRC mentioned that any particular person discovered violating the order might be punished below the supply of the Disaster Management Act, 2005 and different related legal guidelines.Keeping in view the speedy surge in Covid circumstances, offline courses for Class I to XII college students have additionally been suspended throughout the State from Friday.  

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Hostels may even stay closed from Jan 10

Offline courses for Class I to XII college students have been suspended from Friday

Scholars, researchers and college students who want to remain in a hostel for analysis, undertaking works or different tutorial actions could also be permitted after they furnish endeavor to stick to Covid pointers