Srinagar: Lieutenant Governor, G C Murmu, today chaired a high level meeting of Education department to review the education scenario in Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir amid COVID-19 lockdown.
He announced that it may not be possible to reopen the schools till 31st May 2020 and during this time period the department should take up infrastructural repairs.
He emphasized that before the schools and colleges are reopened, all educational institutions should be properly sanitized and fumigated.
Murmu also directed for setting up a mechanism for general health check up of the students twice a year besides issuing health cards so that their parents remain aware of their childrens’ state of health.
