Prayagraj: The Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad (IIIT-A) has postponed its decision to reopen the campus for more students for the time being. The decision in light of the alerts sounded by both the central and state governments regarding the threat from the new COVID variant Omicron. The institute will continue holding classes online mode.
The IIIT-A had already started allowing students to get back to the campus after a sharp decline in COVID-19 cases here and across the country.
The doctoral and postgraduate students were the first to return to the campus from July 2021 followed by select undergraduate students. Undergraduate students who were facing resources problem at home were allowed from September.
“The lists of these students were prepared with the help of institute’s ‘Students’ Gymkhana’, the students’ representative body. The plan was to allow another batch of 250 students facing resources problems back on the campus. However, now this has been deferred,” associate dean (student affairs), IIIT-A, Vijay Kumar Chaurasiya was quoted as saying by Hindustan Times.
The institute made the decision at a meeting of all the deans and heads of departments chaired by IIIT-A director prof P Nagabhushan on Thursday.
“In the high-level meeting, the members assessed the Covid situation, especially the cases of Omicron variant in the country, and decided that the institute is not allowing any student back on the campus for the time being. It was further decided that those who were earlier given permission to join back campus but could not join the institute due to some personal reasons would also not be allowed to join the campus till further orders,” Professor Nagabhushan said.
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