RUPSA Urges Karnataka Govt To Reopen Primary Schools Too

Registered Unaided Private Schools Management Association, Karnataka, (RUPSA) today appealed to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to give permission for the reopening of primary schools from August.

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Bengaluru: Registered Unaided Private Schools Management Association, Karnataka, (RUPSA) today (July 29) urged the newly sworn in Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to give his consent for the reopening of primary schools from the first week of August.

The president of the educational association, Lokesh Talikatte said that as the Covid positivity rate in the state had dipped to less than 5 per cent since the first week of June, the govt should consider reopening primary schools.

He pointed out, experts in India and in overseas have also clearly allayed fears of Covid third wave and the children being carriers of the deadly infection.

The RUPSA committee headed by Dr. Devi Shetty has pressed on conducting offline classes for children. It is noteworthy that the government has given permission for high schools and colleges to open from the first week of August.

Bringing the importance of offline education into notice, Talikatte said that children have not attended classes for 16 months. He said as high schools and colleges get permission to operate, likewise, permission must also be given to conduct primary classes.

However, reports tell a different story on Karnataka’s Covid situation. The state logged 1,501 new Covid-19 cases and 32 deaths on July 27, with a total number of infected cases to 28.97 lakh and the graph to 36,437. And the state recorded a steep spike today with 2,052 new positive cases.