The increasing Covid cases across the state, including Dhanbad, has been taking its toll on educational and technical institutions.
BIT-Sindri the lone state-owned engineering college of the state has cancelled offline classes for the B Tech (5th semester) students and at the same time has postponed the hostel allotment for the newly admitted students which was scheduled to begin from January 3, 2022.
A notice issued by Ramji Verma General of BIT Sindri said, “this is to inform all students of B Tech 5th semester that there offline classes is hereby postponed, in view of Covid 19 (Spreading of Omicron) pandemic till further further order”
“The online classes will continue as usual” further reads the notice and adds that the hostel allotment which was scheduled to begin from 3rd January 22 is also deferred consequently.
“The students advised to remain in contact with the website of the institute for any development in the matter” sums up the notice.
Notably, B Tech third year and final year students besides the final year students have been allowed at the hostels while the hostel allotment for newly admitted B Tech students was scheduled to begin from January 2.
Contacted, Dharmendra Kumar Singh, BIT Sindri Director said “Yes, we have suspended the offline classes as the Covid cases are increasing in the state including in Dhanbad and at the same time also postponed the hostel allotment schedule to begin from January 3, 2022”
“The hostel allotment postponement has been carried out temporarily for a week or so as we are keeping close watch on the Covid situation and we may resume the allotment as the situation improves after holding talks with the local administration” said Singh.
He further elaborated, “ the hostel allotment process has been kept at bay as we don’t have vacant single seated hostel rooms at present as all the single seated rooms are occupied by the B Tech final year and M Tech students and we can’t take the risk of keeping the students in double seated, triple seated or more than triple seated rooms in present situation when the covid cases are on the rise and the threat of spread of Omicron is also looming large”.
Notably, 27 hostels of BIT-Sindri spread over its 480 acres of campus has the capacity to accommodate around 3000 students, including B Tech and M Tech students during the normal but in the present condition of pandemic when social distancing norms are required to be observed all students can’t be accommodated due to lack of single seated rooms.