Amid rising Covid-19 cases, the Tripura government has announced the suspension of offline classes for students in all the schools, colleges, and universities from April 17.

Recently, the administration suspended offline classes for students of 1 and 2 in all the schools across the state for an indefinite period for the same reason.

Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath stated that, ‘In view of the recent surge in Covid cases in the state and requests from the guardians of students, the state government has decided to close all educational institutions including schools, colleges, and universities’.

But the secondary examination and the higher secondary examination are scheduled to start from May 19 and May 18, later he added.

‘The annual examination of students from class 3 to class 8 is scheduled to begin from April 28. A decision will be made based on the situation in this case as well. Besides, a decision on the current semester’s examination in colleges will be made after a meeting with vice-chancellors of the universities,’  Nath added.

The minister said that the ongoing examinations of schools, colleges, technical and professional institutions, and universities would continue as notified.

However, 50 percent of teaching and non-teaching staff would attend their duties on working days, and on examination days, they would come as per the requirements of the head of the institutes.