Bengaluru: Nine months after the schools were shut down nation-wide owing to the Corona Virus pandemic, Karnataka Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar, on Monday, announced that regular classes will resume for government school students studying in classes 10 and 12 from January 1.
The students have been attending online classes after the lockdown was imposed and ‘Vidyagama’ (community learning) were started for government school students.
A cabinet meeting was held with regard to re-opening of the schools on Monday and following this, the Minister for Primary and Secondary Education made the announcement.
Though the Minister had spoken about re-opening of schools on December 19. the 26 people who returned from the UK to Karnataka testing positive for Coronavirus had put the decision on hold.
Since it is not yet confirmed whether these individuals had contracted the UK variant of the COVID-19, the government has gone ahead with the decision.
Degree and engineering colleges in the state were reopened on November 17, while medical and paramedical colleges reopened on December 1.