Jaipur: Officials of the Rajasthan government’s education and health departments are scheduled to meet on Saturday to discuss a standard operating procedure (SOP) on reopening of schools, which have been closed for the past six months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health department officials will apprise the meeting on the pandemic situation and then “a decision regarding the reopening of schools will be taken”, news agency PTI quoted an unnamed official as saying.
On Friday, Rajasthan Education Minister Govind Singh Dotasra had met Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and notified him of the SOP on reopening of schools.
Recently, the Union Home Ministry had issued guidelines for Unlock 5, where it mentioned that state governments were at liberty to reopen schools by adhering to safety protocols.
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