FAISALABAD: All educational institutions including schools, colleges and universities reopened for academic activities under tight corona standard operating procedures (SOPs), here on Thursday.
Heads of educational institutions had already been directed to ensure 50% presence in all classes from Sept 16 and the students should be called in the school on alternate days in rotation, so that COVID-19 SOPs could be observed fully.
Talking to the media, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) District Education Authority (DEA) Ali Ahmad Siyan said that the officers of educational department were activated to ensure 100 per cent implementation of the corona SOPs while resuming educational activities in the district.
He said that various teams were constituted which visited schools in all tehsils of Faisalabad to check violation of the SOPs and no violation was reported in any part of the district.
He said that there were total 2, 211 primary, elementary, high and higher secondary schools in the district where 83, 3876 male and female students were studying. He said that 21, 165 teachers and 4, 526 personnel of non-teaching staff were performing duties in these schools.
Similarly, there are 3, 063 private schools are also operating across the district, out of which 2, 033 schools are registered and 1, 030 are unregistered.
He said that 111 boys and girls schools are running under the aegis of Punjab Education Foundation while 224 schools are operating under Insaf Afternoon School Program where 6853 students are getting education.
He said that 17 special education centres are also working in Faisalabad where 2265 children are studying while 498 teachers are performing duties.
He said that 35, 393 personnel of teaching staff of government and private schools have got corona vaccination in addition to the vaccination of 7, 877 members of non-teaching staff in these institutions. However, the teams of education department will remain active in the field daily to ensure strict implementation on corona SOPs, he added.