GNDU students give regular classes a miss

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, November 16

Guru Nanak Dev University and its constituent colleges reopened on Monday to hold regular classes for students as per the instructions of the state government. Though no student came to attend classes, most colleges and departments of the GNDU began the process to conduct physical classes for final term students.

Vice–Chancellor Prof Dr Jaspal Singh Sandhu informed that institutes of higher education in the state could reopen from November 16. Day one was all about preparing the ground for safe implementation of standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Prof SS Behal, Dean Academic Affairs, GNDU, said, “Students are more than willing to attend offline classes. We have started the process of allotting hostels and arranging things for smooth and safe conduct of physical classes. We will give preference to out station and international students while one room, per student will be allotted in hostels for now. In a day or two, students will start coming.”

Meanwhile, students of most colleges in the city did not attended regular classes today. The institutes opened to initiate the process of commencing offline classes.

Sanjeev Sharma, Principal, Hindu College, said, “We will start classes from November 17. In the first phase, we will only take practical classes. After a few days, we will begin with offline courses.”

200 attend classes at Khalsa College

Around 200 BA final year and postgraduate students attended regular classes at Khalsa College on Monday. While the institute continues to conduct online classes as well, the first day attendence was termed low by the college authorities. DS Rattaul, Deputy Director (Media), Khalsa College, said, “We anticipated that students would be willing to attend offline classes. The first day attendence was not quite impressive, but we hope that it will go up with time.”