Bengaluru: The state government has come out with protocols to be followed during the 202 Karnataka CET examinations so that even COVID positive candidates can participate.
As per the protocols, students must get a physician’s letter and inform the officials in advance. A 108 ambulance will be arranged to transport these COVID infected candidates from and to the hospital.
It can be recalled that the examinations are scheduled to be held on July 30 and 31. The students must be present two hours before the exams begin and must carry their tiffin boxes along with them.
The COVID infected students will also be given a special hall to write the CET exam and after each exam, the hall will be sanitised.
The staff who will be handling these students have already been informed about the protocols they must follow.
As per the protocols, students coming from containment zones will be kept in special rooms and given surgical masks. The supervisors will be given gloves and surgical masks. The halls used by these students should be cleaned with 1 per cent sodium hypochlorite within 30 minutes after they leave and the room can be reused only after 24 hours.
Students coming from other states and countries need not undergo the mandatory two-week quarantine and they will be given a special exam hall.
All students answering the exams should maintain a distance of three feet in the exam hall. Only two students will be allowed to sit on on bench and there cannot be more than 24 students in an exam hall.
Three feet distance is mandated in the exam hall, ensuring only two students per bench, and the strength of the hall should not exceed 24 students.
Additionally, all students must be informed about their seating arrangements much in advance in order to avoid gathering at the notice board. The students are also expected to wear a mask.
At least one more centre should to be identified in each district as a backup. However, in Bengaluru, four such backup centres should be reserved. This is being done in case a centre comes under a containment zone, following which, the students will be moved to the backup centre after a discussion with the DC.
The guidelines also require that 50 surgical masks should be provided to every exam centre, which are to be bought using the natural disaster management fund.
The health department has asked the various levels of officials from the departments coordinate and enforce these protocols under their respective deputy commissioner.
