IIM Calcutta has started a survey on the status of vaccination of the students of the two-year MBA programme before deciding whether more students could be called back to the campus.

The institute asked the students’ council on Tuesday to start collating the data.

The institute did not cite vaccination as a condition before letting all the 80 one-year MBA executive programme students and 25 per cent of the students of the two-year programme enter hostels and attend online classes.

But with more students willing to return, the institute is now advising all to get vaccinated, said an official.

An official said the survey was aimed at encouraging students to take both doses of a Covid vaccine.

Manish Thakur, dean (new initiatives and external relations) and a member of the Covid committee of the IIM, told Metro: “Going by a general understanding, vaccination is seen as an antidote to Covid. With this idea in mind, the survey is being conducted.”

The survey’s outcome will be shared with the institute in a week’s time, after which the committee will meet to take a decision on the recall of students.

“There are teaching and non teaching employees staying in the quarters on the campus. So if the students who are coming back take both the doses, then the campus residents would feel safe,” he said.

In mid April, the Joka institute had asked students of its two-year MBA programme and one-year MBA executive programme to vacate hostels after 70 students tested positive.