A university has written to students to hand over keys to the common areas of the hostel so that necessary repairs can start before campuses start reopening from November 16.
A college has decided to open a morning shift to split students and avoid crowding.
Colleges and universities have started the process of getting the campuses ready and calling students in a staggered way, a day after the state government issued an advisory on reopening of campuses.
Rajat Roy, the dean of students at Jadavpur University, wrote to the students’ union in the engineering and arts faculties asking for the keys to the kitchen, dining room etc. “Students have been requested to hand the keys to the hostel superintendents at the earliest,” said a JU official.
Chittaranjan College in central Kolkata will start a morning shift so the students can be called to the campus in a staggered manner.
“The college has so far only a day section…. We have to exercise as much caution as possible. A detailed roster will be announced soon,” said Shyamalendu Chatterjee, principal of the college.
Scottish Church College has established a monitoring cell whose members will roam around the campus to enforce the Covid protocols.
Principal Madhumanjari Mandal said they had asked a medical facility based in Maniktala to monitor the health of students, teachers and others. “We are likely to give hostel boardership to those who are in fifth semester in the first phase,” she said.
A college official said they were collating data on the number of students in first year who were below 18 and were not covered by the vaccination programme. “It will not be advisable to call students who have not received a single dose for on-campus classes.”