Schools in Karnataka to start at 7.50 am hereon
School schedule for 2020-21 released in the backdrop of corona
Bengaluru: The Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board has issued guidelines to all the primary and secondary schools in the state about two-shifts schedule and measures to be taken to facilitate safe distance of students in the academic year 2020-21 in the wake of COVID-19.
In order to ensure that students maintain a safe physical distance, the DDPIs, respective school managements and head masters are advised to run schools in two shifts, that is from 7.50 am to 12.20 pm and the second shift from 12.10 pm to 5 pm.
The respective DDPIs in the state may allow the respective school headmasters and the managements of the schools to actively adapt the shift system to suit the needs, and resources of each school within their jurisdiction. But in doing so, the schools must comply with the guidelines issued by the department.
Each desk should accommodate up to three students to secure a safe distance in the school classrooms. If classrooms are lacking, the school can use the library, sports room, and computer room to serve this purpose.
The number of pupils in primary schools from 1st to 5th grade in the state is low in most of the schools. There is no need for shift system in such schools. However, in schools with classes 1 to 7/8, where there is a lack of rooms to maintain a safe distance, shift system can be adopted.
The notification stated that the composite PU colleges can run from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm, instead of 10 am to 3.30 pm. By doing this, PU classrooms can be utilised for highschool classes after 12: 30 pm.
The First Shift
7: 50am to 8am (prayer)
8 am to 8:40 am (1st period)
8:40 am to 9:20 am (Second Period)
9:20 am to 9:40 am (break)
9:20 am to 10:20 am (third period)
10:20 am to 11:00 am (Fourth Period)
11: 00 am to 11:40 am (Fifth Period)
11:20 am to 12:20 pm (sixth period)
The Second Shift
12: 10 pm to 12:30 pm (Prayer)
12:30 pm to 1:10 pm (1st period)
1:10 pm to 1:50 pm (Second Period)
1:50 pm to 2:20 pm (lunch break)
2:20 pm to 3:00 pm (third period)
3:00 pm to 3:40 pm (Fourth period)
3:40 pm to 4:20 pm (fifth period)
4:20 pm to 5 pm (sixth period)
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Women BJP MLAs protest against opposition in UP assembly premises
Lucknow (PTI): Women BJP MLAs held a protest in the Vidhan Bhawan complex before the one-day special session of Uttar Pradesh assembly, slamming the opposition for defeating the passage of a bill, which would have led to implementation of the Women's Reservation Law, in the Lok Sabha.
This followed another demonstration by Samajwadi Party MLAs, who alleged that the BJP was misleading public in the name of women's reservation.
The women BJP legislators assembled in front of Chaudhary Charan Singh's statue in the assembly premises, holding banners inscribed with the slogan "Insult to Matrushakti (women's power), India will not tolerate it". The protesting members entered the main hall of Vidhan Bhawan carrying the banners.
Participating in the protest, the state Minister for Women Welfare and Child Development, Baby Rani Maurya, told reporters that all opposition parties, including the Samajwadi Party and the Congress, had opposed the women's reservation, a stance for which they would have to pay a heavy political price.
"On this issue, all of us women stand united. We will ensure that we secure our reservation," she said.
BJP MLA Ketki Singh remarked that their protest represents the collective outrage of millions of women across the state.
Singh asserted that the opposition has betrayed women by creating hurdles in the path of women's reservation. The current demonstration is merely the beginning, and very soon, women from every street, intersection and household will join the protest movement, she said.
Minister Vijaylakshmi Gautam said, "We strongly condemn the despicable act committed by the Samajwadi Party and the Congress in an attempt to hold back 'half the population' (women). Their action was directed against the very bill that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had introduced to empower and strengthen Nari Shakti (women's power), and which he strived to pass expeditiously."
Uttar Pradesh assembly is holding a one-day special session on Thursday. During the session, the government is set to move a censure motion against the opposition parties over their failure to pass the Constitution Amendment Bill, which would have led to implementation of the Women's Reservation Act, in the Lok Sabha.
