{"id":33075,"date":"2020-09-14T20:10:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T14:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=33075"},"modified":"2020-09-14T20:10:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T14:40:44","slug":"schools-to-reopen-in-kashmir-on-sep-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=33075","title":{"rendered":"Schools to reopen in Kashmir on Sep 21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Srinagar<\/strong>: After remaining closed for more than a year, the schools in Kashmir are all set to reopen next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>An official told news agency Kashmir Dot Com \u2013 (KDC) that the government has chalked out a detailed plan for reopening the schools. \u201cUnder this plan 50 percent of the staff will have to attend the schools on the alternative days,\u201d said the official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding students, the source said, they will be allowed to return to classrooms only after getting written consent from the parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding students of class 9, 10 and 11, the schools authorities will allow 50 percent attendance. \u201cThe schools will be reopened while ensuring strict adherence to all COVID-19 SOPs and health guidelines,\u201d said an official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>He said the final decision to send their wards to the schools will however rests with the parents. \u201cThe schools will not force the students to return to schools, and at the same time the online classes which were started many months ago will continue,\u201d the official added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The schools were first closed in August last year when the government of India unilaterally abrogated Article 370, a constitutional provision that guaranteed special position to Jammu and Kashmir in Union of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The clampdown that was started on August 5 continued for more than six months and was followed by the COVID lockdown that started in March when Kashmir reported first coronavirus case from Srinagar. (KDC)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: After remaining closed for more than a year, the schools in Kashmir are all set to reopen next week. An official told news agency Kashmir Dot Com \u2013 (KDC) that the government has chalked out a detailed plan for reopening the schools. \u201cUnder this plan 50 percent of the staff will have to attend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}