Offline classes set to begin at GNDU, Amritsar from August 16
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, August 10
Several city colleges on Tuesday resumed offline classes for odd and even semesters for postgraduate and undergraduate courses. GNDU has already announced to resume offline classes from August 16 onwards. With the admissions for undergraduate courses underway, the university is set to begin the academic session through the traditional mode of learning. The university has released the schedule for regular offline classes for city colleges.
We are conducting offline exams for odd and even classes and the admissions for the first-year undergraduate courses will close till August 31. We will begin with the session from September 1. We have been getting requests from students, especially those from Gurdaspur and Pathankot, to start offline teaching as studies have suffered due to Covid-19.
Meanwhile, Khalsa College too resumed offline classes for agricultural sciences and other selected courses. “The first day attendance was less than 50 per cent, but we are hoping that when we resume offline classes for all courses from August 16 onwards, the attendance will improve. The students are willing to come for offline classes, but the SOPs require them to be fully vaccinated. We have made it mandatory for students to have the Aarogya Setu app. We are getting hostel inquiries, but we have not yet reopened hostels,” said Dr Mehal Singh, principal, Khalsa College.
BBK DAV college is conducting online exams for odd and even semesters. Meanwhile, the college is planning to resume offline classes from next week onwards. “The university has released its schedule for offline classes, but it will take a few days to wrap up admission work as the CBSE Class XII results have recently been announced. The college management will decide only after the new admissions wrap up,” said the college spokesperson.
DAV college too has informed the students about resumption of offline classes from September 1. “We are conducting offline exams for odd and even classes and the admissions for the first-year undergraduate courses will close till August 31. So, we will begin with our academic session from September 1. We had been getting requests from students, especially those hailing from rural areas of Gurdaspur, Pathankot and other areas, to begin offline teaching as academics have suffered due to the pandemic. We have asked students to ensure that they follow SOPs,” informed Dr Rajesh Kumar, principal, DAV College.
