{"id":326611,"date":"2020-09-18T13:12:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T13:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326611"},"modified":"2020-09-18T13:12:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T13:12:41","slug":"delhi-schools-to-remain-closed-for-students-till-october-5-online-classes-to-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-schools-to-remain-closed-for-students-till-october-5-online-classes-to-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi schools to remain closed for students till October 5, online classes to continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-326613 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/school.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/school.jpg 501w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/school-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/school-446x420.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/>All schools in Delhi will continue to remain closed till October 5 amid rise in COVID-19 cases, the Directorate of Education, Delhi announced on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the official order issued by the Directorate of Education, &#8220;All schools will remain closed for all students till October 5. However, online classes and teaching-learning activities will continue as usual and HoS (Heads of Schools) are authorized to call teachers\/ staff (as per requirement) for smooth conduct of online classes, teaching-learning activities and any other work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per Unlock 4.0 guidelines, schools have been allowed to call students from class 9 to 12 to schools on a voluntary basis from September 21.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Schools and colleges across the country have been closed since March 16, when the government announced a countrywide classroom shutdown as part of its measures to fight COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi has so far reported 2,34,701 COVID-19 cases.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All schools in Delhi will continue to remain closed till October 5 amid rise in COVID-19 cases, the Directorate of Education, Delhi announced on Friday. As per the official order issued by the Directorate of Education, &#8220;All schools will remain closed for all students till October 5. However, online classes and teaching-learning activities will continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":326613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[429,13454,1561],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326614,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326611\/revisions\/326614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}