-The Telegraph West Bengal government shut down schools and colleges again from January 3 Vaccination for students aged 15 to 18 has begun School students in West Bengal who returned to the campus after a 20-month break in November are back behind the screen amid a surge in Covid cases across the country. Achal Sarkar, a student of Class XI at St. Xavier’s Institution, Panihati, had been looking forward to school reopening after the...
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Schools must be the last to close and the first to open, suggests NCEE to the govt.
-Press release by National Coalition on the Education Emergency (NCEE) dated January 4, 2022 We note with concern, that governments are considering or planning school closure as Covid cases are on the rise. Delhi, Goa and Haryana governments have ordered school closure. Karnataka TAC has recommended a TPR of 2 percent to close schools and colleges. This will spell a disaster for children. Schools have recently opened after remaining mostly closed since...
More »Centre suspends biometric attendance for govt employees as Covid cases spike
-Livemint.com Biometric attendance for government officials and employees is being suspended with immediate effect, till further orders, Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh said The biometric attendance at all government offices has been suspended in the view of rising Covid cases, Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh said. However, all the employees are required to mark their attendance in attendance registers to be maintained manually, an order issued by the Personnel Ministry said. “Keeping in...
More »Number Theory: A data wish-list for the New Year -Roshan Kishore
-Hindustan Times 2021 was supposed to be the year of the decadal census in India. This exercise has not been delayed even once until 2011 since 1881, when India conducted its first full census. Every day, the data and political economy team of the Hindustan Times brings you stories we call Number Theory. They are based on databases from India and sometimes even abroad. We will continue to do this in the...
More »Omicron In India Could Require 60,000 People Hospitalised Per Day
-NDTV.com COVID-19: While the official number of Omicron cases in India is estimated to be nearly 1, 500, in reality, it could be more than 10 times that - as high as 18,000 - with the number shooting up every day New Delhi: India is going through an Omicron wave - one we don't seem to be acknowledging. While official figures suggest that Omicron cases are less than 2 per cent of...
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