St Xavier’s College, Park Street, will resume in-person classes with the outgoing postgraduate and BEd batches from November 16 and also restart research activities.
The library will open but only books can be borrowed and deposited.
No one would be allowed to read inside the library.
The college is not reopening the hostels immediately.
“The resumption of off-line classes, beginning with outgoing postgraduate and BEd batches, will be calibrated in phases to ensure that all safety norms and protocols are engrained fully and comprehensively before we bring back all students to the campus and reopen hostel facilities,” says the notice signed by principal Father Dominic Savio.
He said research laboratories had been opened to ensure scholars could resume full-time research.
An official of the college said that the practical and theory classes of the outgoing batch would be held on the campus on rotation.
A time table has been drawn up, he added.
Those who won’t be able to come because parents are not consenting to sending their sons and daughters amid the pandemic, can continue to attend their theory classes over digital platforms.
“We are not forcing anyone to come to the campus,” Father Dominic Savio told The Telegraph.
Unlike in masters and BEd level, many students at the undergraduate level come from states outside Bengal and they cannot be called without reopening the hostels, said a college official.
Until the remaining students are called to the campus for in-person academic activities, they will continue to attend classes over online mode.
A significant number of first-years students are below the age group of 18 and have not received any dose of vaccine.
The college is not willing to call them.
The examination for most of the years will begin by December 4 and they will be held online.
The Internet and audio-video facilities are undergoing maintenance and they are being upgraded because blended learning will continue, the notice says.