IIT Kharagpur: Only MSc. Mtech students who have received both COVID-19 vaccination doses will be permitted to return.
NEW DELHI: According to a story in The Telegraph, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur has chosen to reopen its campus for 1,400 MTech and MSc students who have been completely vaccinated. They will have access to the laboratories and will be able to do practicals that cannot be done through online classes, according to the article.
MTech and MSc students who enrolled in July of last year wrote to IIT director VK Tewari, requesting that the campus be reopened. Since March, due to the second wave of the COVID-19 epidemic, lessons have been done entirely online.
“All final-year MSc and MTech students were being called back to campus,” Dhrubajyoti Sen, the dean of students’ affairs, told The Telegraph. Only those BTech students who were experiencing resource restrictions while taking online sessions at home have been contacted.”
To avoid congestion, students returning to campus will be divided into small groups. “MTech and MSc students will now arrive on campus. As a result, the major goal will be to avoid any assemblage as much as possible while enabling access to the laboratories,” an official told The Telegraph.
The institution is also increasing the number of research researchers on campus, with another 400 being recalled in stages beginning in October.