Mumbai: From March 2, the Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has allowed all educational institutions from pre-primary to class 12 to open. This will be the first time since the lockdown in March 2020, the BMC has allowed all students to open fully. At the same time, students with comorbidities and chronic diseases will have to give a parent's consent letter for physical presence in school and college.

On Friday, after a meeting with the state officer and civics officer, Aaditya Thackeray, a cabinet minister in the Maharashtra government, decided to open educational institutions in a fully offline mode. In recent days all schools are working in hybrid mode. Schools and colleges across Maharashtra are awaiting approval from the administration to open in 100 per cent offline mode.

Aditya Thackeray, cabinet minister in the Maharashtra government, said on social media, "Schools in Mumbai may resume from March onwards with pre-Covid timings, with full attendance, extra-curricular activities, school buses, additional Covid-appropriate norms, as cases of infection are continuously declining in Mumbi. In the SOP issued for school colleges in Mumbai, sports activities and extra-curricular activities in schools and colleges have been allowed to resume, there is no need to wear masks due to these activities. However, students will be required to wear masks in classrooms. There will be continuous thermal screening in schools.''

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