The government of Telangana today announced that the schools, colleges and other educational institutions in the state would be reopened from September 1.
Since Covid-19 cases and deaths have been falling drastically in the state, the government has come to the decision that it is now safe to reopen educational institutions and resume onsite classes.
Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao held a review meeting with Education Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy, Panchayat Raj Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao, Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar and some other officials to discuss the matter. It was during this meeting that he decided that the educational institutions in the state would resume face-to-face classes from next month.
The schools in the state have been shut since last March due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Though the government had planned on opening them recently, the idea was scrapped after the state's high court had asked it for a report outlining the steps it would take to contain the spread of the pandemic in the state and had raised some objections regarding the plan.
But after some states have already restarted onsite classes, the Telangana government too has now finally decided to do the same.
The decision comes just days after Telangana's Director of Public Health, Dr G Srinivas Rao, announced that the
second wave of the pandemic was now over in the state.