Several Colleges of DU Conduct Open Classes To Ensure Physical Distancing

Several Colleges of DU Conduct Open Classes To Ensure Physical Distancing
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Several colleges of Delhi University are conducting classes in open ground and in batches also to ensure physical distancing as most of the students started attending physical lectures once the university reopened after a two-year COVID-enforced hiatus. Have given. Colleges are also providing regular counselling to students who are facing psychological issues to help them adjust to the new environment.

Expect more students to come in the coming days

Delhi University reopened last Thursday and students are coming in good numbers. The colleges are expecting more students to come in the coming days.
However, the return of a large number of students is causing problems in ensuring adherence to the Corona-19 protocol. Moreover, according to the principals of the college, there has been an increase in the cases of physical issues among the students.

Difficult to maintain social distancing

We are all trying to follow the COVID-19 protocol. A large number of students are coming, in such a situation it is becoming difficult to follow social distancing. There is also the problem of overcrowding. Social distancing is impossible but we have strict adherence to wearing masks and other protocols, said Hindu College principal A.K. Srivastava. Along with this, colleges are scrambling to provide quality education to the students and at the same time not to compromise on their health.

We hope that we will settle down very soon Srivastava said:
As the colleges are opening after a gap of two years, Srivastava believes that things will take time to settle down.
We still have students coming. It will take time to fully open up and we are working on it. We hope that we will be settled very soon. We need to prioritize everything from classrooms to cafeteria to hostels. Everything has to be taken into account,- she said.

Anxiety levels are very high among students

Meanwhile, M. Khanna, principal of Ramdas College, said that the anxiety level among the students is very high. Suddenly there has been an increase in psychological issues among the students. The anxiety level among the students is very high among the students. We send them to the counsellor, he said. He stressed that it is quite difficult to maintain social distancing inside the campus.

Try to maintain social distance but infrastructure issues
Our infrastructure is not such that we can accommodate all the students so we are taking classes in batches. We cannot isolate the students. Though we try to maintain social distance in the classrooms but students meet outside and it is very difficult to force them to maintain social distancing.”

Colleges ensuring the proper counselling

The colleges have said that they are ensuring that proper counselling is provided to the students:

    1. Jaswinder Singh, Principal, Guru-Tegh-Bahadur-Khalsa College said, – We have trained counsellors. We are providing counselling to the students. The counsellor comes twice every week. But if there are urgent matters, we provide counsellors to the students. Provide telephone details.
    2. Some teachers are also taking classes in open ground to avoid overcrowding. The principal of Hindu College said, – We have given permission to sit outside to hold classes in the open. Many teachers are taking classes in the open.
    3. We are suggesting that the college has an open ground because when they are in the open the transmission is less. We’re making sure they go outside and into class when they’re asking to open doors and windows. We are seeing that they are wearing masks, – she said, adding that the principal also informed that the college is launching a new welfare scheme for this year to provide monetary assistance to students facing financial difficulties.
    4. We are also working on providing student aid to the students like providing living expenses to the students. By next week, we are making a list of students who need welfare assistance and will provide it to them as the cost of living in the city would have gone up, – she said.
    5. This is new thing apart from scholarship, which we are introducing, which will be available for this year only. Under this, financial assistance will be given to the needy students. During this period some amount will be provided as welfare assistance to the students on need basis.