Schools have divided students into batches for the vaccination and have earmarked areas on the campus where the children will wait, where they will be administered the jab and where they will be observed post-vaccination.
Several government and private schools have sent forms to parents to get an idea how many of them are keen to get their children vaccinated on the campuses.
At Sakhawat Memorial Government Girls' High School and Baghbazar Multipurpose Girls' School, two of the 16 schools where Kolkata Municipal Corporation will launch the vaccination of the 15-18 age group on Monday, the eligible students have been given specific slots to prevent crowding on the campus.
At Sakhawat Memorial, about 90 per cent of the Class XI students scheduled to get the jab on Monday gave their consent by Sunday evening, said headmistress Papia Singha Mahapatra.
The students have been split into five batches - based on their roll numbers - of 25 each.
“Once the students of a batch exit the campus, the students of the next batch will enter. The timings have been shared with the guardians. Students of each slot will wait in a spacious hall that can accommodate 200 people,” said Singha Mahapatra.
The students who have given their consent to be vaccinated at the school have all registered themselves on the CoWin portal, she said.
At Baghbazar Multipurpose Girls’ School, too, the eligible students have been split into batches and a separate floor has been earmarked for the parents to wait, headmistress Debika Basu said.
At least three private schools are scheduled to start the vaccination on their premises on Tuesday.
At The Heritage School, about 25 per cent of the eligible students gave their consent to be vaccinated on the campus till Sunday evening, officials said.
South Point High School, where, too, the vaccination camp will start on Tuesday, issued a notice: "We urge all parents to avail the opportunity at their earliest convenience. We would especially request those in Classes IX to XII to be vaccinated….”
The notice says vaccination is “the way forward to return safely to onsite classes, without which the teaching learning transaction seems to remain incomplete".
“The aim is to vaccinate 60 persons every hour,” said Krishna Damani, trustee, South Point.
Father M. Thamacin Arulappan, principal of St Xavier's Collegiate School, where too vaccination will start, said: "If students do not appear for the vaccination, we will call them and find out the reason. In case there are students who cannot turn up because they are sick, we will try to arrange a separate day for them later.”
