BENGALURU: With six months of the current
academic year over and amid encouraging signs of Karnataka reporting a drop in the number of
Covid-19 positive cases, CM
BS Yediyurappa will hold a meeting with health and education ministers on Monday to discuss about when to reopen schools in the state.
Sources said Yediyurappa will take into account the low response in colleges, which reopened recently, before considering options on reopening of schools. With neighbouring states taking their own call on resumption of
classes 9 to 12, Karnataka may continue with online classes for those in primary schools.
Will present all options to CM: Minith the Vidaygama fiasco cre- Wating serious concerns for the safety of students and teachers, the CM may defer reopening to the next academic year, sources said.
Primary and secondary education minister S Suresh Kumar said any decision, if made , will be based on the outcome of Monday’s meeting. “We will present all the options to the CM in presence of the health minister and his team. Our options are based on interactions with school development and monitoring committees across the state,” said Kumar.
He said the education commissioner and principal secretary will make a presentation with statistics.