Education on Wheels
Most children still can’t go to school in Kolkata due to Covid restrictions, so Calcutta Rescue is now taking the school to them. It has converted a school bus into a classroom and earlier this month it began touring the slums every day allowing children aged four to six to begin their education. Preparing children […]
Physical Classes start for Board Examinees
After standing empty for eight months, the classrooms of No 10 and Tala Park schools are slowly coming back to life. The government of West Bengal is not allowing schools to reopen due to continuing high levels of Covid infection, but it has given the green light for Class 9 and 10 students to come […]
Update on the current educational situation – Ananya Chatterjee, CR’s head of education
In Kolkata, education institutions were declared shut from 16th of March 2020 and may remain closed till the onset of next summer, given the present scenario. The national government allowed for the gradual reopening of educational institutions across the country from October but the final decision was left to individual states based on local circumstances […]