PATNA: Taking cognizance of the state education department’s instructions, Patna University (PU) has decided to suspend all its offline classes from Monday. It will switch over to online classes until further orders.
Teachers and non-teaching staff of the university and all its allied units would report to their duties as usual, but students have been advised to stay home. The heads of postgraduate departments and college principals have been directed to ensure proper sanitization of their respective institutions and follow the Covid-19 protocols. The decision to hold online classes has been taken to check the academic loss of students owing to suspension of regular classroom teaching.
PU students’ welfare dean N K Jha told the newspaper on Sunday that boys and girls residing in different hostels of the university would stay there by following the safety norms like social distancing and proper sanitization. Hostel superintendents have been asked to take care of all their boarders and keep constant vigil on their movement.
He said the process of allotment of hostel accommodation to newly admitted PG students was to be completed by April 10, but now it would be delayed owing to disruption of normal campus activities.
The PhD course work examination of PU will, however, be held as scheduled on April 8 and 9 with Covid-19 protocol. More than 1500 scholars are to take the examination at Magadh Mahila College centre, he said.
Meanwhile, Nalanda Open University on Sunday announced that all its examinations of 2020 commencing from Monday would be held as scheduled with full safety measures. The venue and timing of examinations would remain the same. However, no student would be allowed to take the examination without wearing face mask, according to an NOU notification.