KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced that schools and colleges in the state will reopen from November 15. She also directed the chief secretary to take necessary measures to ease the process. Banerjee, after attending an administrative review meeting at Uttar Kanya in Siliguri, asked chief secretary H K Dwivedi to ensure proper cleaning and sanitisation of educational institutions before they reopen. Schools and colleges in the state have been closed since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in March last year.