Andhra Pradesh is all set to see the schools across the state to have offline classes from the 16th of this month.

The schools will be operating as per the normal timings and no online classes will be entertained. All the Covid protocols and SOPs would be followed, the concerned Minister said.

Andhra Pradesh Education Minister Adimulapu Suresh said that the physical classes will be started from August 16 and the private schools have been instructed to not conduct online classes.

Addressing the media, the Cabinet Minister said around 95 percent of the teachers were vaccinated and the remaining of them would also be vaccinated by the time the offline classes get started.

The state run schools across the state were categorised into six categories in Andhra Pradesh and the renovated school buildings will also be used.

The Minister had made it clear that the instructions to not conduct online classes were sent to the private institutions.

The educational institutions like schools and colleges have been forced to shut since 2020 in the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak.

In the wake of the dangerous situation, the Andhra Pradesh government announced that SSC exams were cancelled and the students were passed.

Same with the case with other states too. Several states have announced that the exams were cancelled and they will be promoted.

Andhra Pradesh is apparently the first state in the country to go for the physical classes and start the academic year.

However, states like Punjab, Maharashtra, Kerala and others are also in the decision of opting for the offline classes but the date of commencement of the classes were not announced.

The Andhra Pradesh government is in plans to reopen the schools in the state when around 2,000 new cases of Coronavirus are being detected daily.

The other day, Andhra Pradesh saw as many as 1,413 new people testing positive for the dreaded virus. The fresh cases have come down with the decline in samples tested for Covid reportedly.

While 19,83,721 patients were tested Covid positive in the state so far, 19,50,623 patients out of them have managed to recover. The state has
19,549 active cases.