The colleges will make masks, sanitizers, and thermal checking at the entry gate to be mandatory for every student, still, the supervision over social distancing guidelines wouldn’t be an easy task for them. Hostels, mess area, canteen, and all other gathering places will prove a great challenge for the authorities for maintaining the norms.
A wide list of arrangements has been done by the institutions for the smooth reopening of respective campuses. They modified campuses to isolated centers, planning to offer special scholarships and new strategies are going to implement shortly.
As the colleges in the country are preparing to open the offline classes from August, it would be an extremely tough job for the college management teams to strictly adhere to social distancing norms, provided by UGC.
Meanwhile, the classes will be divided into smaller units, and the professors will need to have extra teaching hours. The online mode of classes will continue, in case students couldn’t reach the campuses immediately.
Remembering the above-expressed difficulties, the Indian Institute of Technology alongside the entirety of its branches has said not to direct disconnected classes this whole year and open the school in January. In any case, an official choice would be taken by UGC.
Campus as an isolated unit
What’s more, the individuals who are opening their entryways are thinking about a few new activities. The Indian School of Hospitality (ISH), for example, is proposing to open to full limit by isolating the whole grounds in a colossal air pocket to keep students and instructors wary. The ISH is proposing to request that all understudies abide in lodgings, including day-visitors and from inn rooms to study halls to the flask, everything will be sterilized all the time.
In case a student has to travel, they will be made to do so in the conveyance offered by the college. Through this, they aim to ensure the entire campus and students function as one unit and minimize contacts from anyone outside.
College to run on a double shift basis
Several colleges are also running in double shifts, where some students will be made to come in the first half and others in the second one. JK Lakshmipat University, for instance, will run from 9 am to 6 pm. During this phase, students and teachers will be given a staggered plan to visit the campus followed by timely sanitization. The JKLU pro-vice-chancellor told that the institute has a 12:1 student-faculty ratio which will ensure that every class has a proper percentage of teachers without making them work double shifts.
For the ITM Institute of Health Sciences, Maharashtra has devised an alternate day scheme of batches to ensure the student-teacher distribution. Each class will be halved into two and one-half of students will be called on day 1 and the other half on other days. To ensure this does not mean only alternative days of study, the college will also hold online classes. The lectures will be done on alternative mode. Among those who attend college, masks, sanitizers, and the AarogyaSetu app is a must for everyone.
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