{"id":16629,"date":"2022-02-10T16:50:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T11:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=16629"},"modified":"2022-02-10T16:50:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T11:20:22","slug":"bengal-govt-is-considering-re-opening-of-primary-sections-with-50-students-says-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/bengal-govt-is-considering-re-opening-of-primary-sections-with-50-students-says-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengal govt is considering re-opening of primary sections with 50% students, says CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal government is mulling the re-opening of junior sections in schools in view of the improved COVID-19 situation, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said today.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a programme in Kolkata, Banerjee said that schools have re-opened for classes 8 to 12, and those in classes 5 to 7 are attending classes in open areas in their neighbourhood under a state government programme. The government is currently in talks with experts about re-opening of the junior classes also, and those in the primary section may soon go back to school as well. \u201cWe can start classes with 50% attendance after considering the overall situation,\u201d Banerjee said.<\/p>\n<p>Schools have remained closed for two years for the junior classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal government is mulling the re-opening of junior sections in schools in view of the improved COVID-19 situation, chief minister&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":15341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[246,346,582,386,525,371,49,152],"class_list":["post-16629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-bengal","tag-coronavirus-in-india","tag-coronavirus-in-kolkata","tag-cover-story","tag-covid-19-and-schools","tag-covid-19-vaccine","tag-lockdown-in-india","tag-mamata-banerjee","tag-schoolchildren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16631,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16629\/revisions\/16631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}