Thedepartment of school education, Punjab Government has recently issuedinstructions to raise awareness amongst students regarding covid-19 precautionsand have issued guidelines to ensure if rules are being strictly followed.
Asall schools have been reopened after a long period, instructions were issued toappoint a teacher in each school as a nodal officer and a student in each classas a monitor to raise awareness about the precautions to be taken to preventcovid-19.
Inschools, the students sometimes ignore guidelines as indulge in actions like notwearing the mask properly, not keeping the required distance between eachother, not washing the hands properly etc. Therefore, the nodal officer andclass monitor will keep a tab on all such violations and would report theaction immediately to the concerned authorities.
Theorders released by the Education Department, reads, “Keeping in view thesituation of Covid-19, SOPs have been issued by the Punjab Government for the schools.Adherence to guidelines must be ensured. A teacher should be appointed as thenodal officer in the school to make students aware about the correct method ormanner of wearing a mask. Similarly, one student in each class as a monitormust encourage the rest of the students to follow all the guidelines”.
Theseinstructions would be applicable to all government, aided and private schoolsin the state of Punjab.
EducationSecretary Krishan Kumar said that the school heads will play an effective rolein this awareness campaign and all the District Education Officers (Secondaryand Elementary Education) should monitor the schools as well as the aided andprivate schools in their respective districts to ensure compliance of theinstructions issued in SOPs.