The state education department has sought daily reports of Covid positive incidences on the campuses from the heads of schools, colleges and universities.
In a form, the head of the institution has to furnish details like whether a student/ teacher/ non-teaching staff has been infected, the date of confirmatory tests, whether the affected person attended the institution after occurrence of symptoms, whether sanitisation has been done at the places where the affected person visited.
The exercise was launched a day after chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday expressed her concern over the fresh surge in Covid-19 cases in the state and said her government might again shut down schools and colleges for “some more days” if the latest round of spread was seen affecting students.
Each day the report in a formatted way has to be submitted by 4pm.
An official of the education department said they want to collate the data about the rate of infections on campuses before taking a call on whether the campuses have to be shut again.
“Yesterday, I said that a review be carried out at schools and colleges about what is the (latest) situation. We will take a decision after a serious review, ” the chief minister had said at Gangasagar on Thursday.
In recent times, some colleges and universities that resumed offline classes from mid-November, had to suspend classes of specific subjects after the teachers and students tested positive.
Cases of infections are being reported from the schools in the districts.
“As the classes resume from January 2, students will be coming to the campus. The heads of the institutions should have the information whether any teaching or non- teaching staff is infected. So they have been asked to keep sending the reports. We are gathering detailed inputs to review the situation before taking a call,” said another official of the education department.
Since Madhyamik is due in February, they want to carry out an extensive review at the earliest, said the official.
“We have to decide whether Madhyamik can be held in-person. The colleges and universities have already been told to hold the semester exams online. We have to decide whether offline classes in schools, colleges and universities can be held in keeping with the November advisory,” he said.
