Murad Raas, the education minister of Punjab has just announced the details regarding the reopening of educational institutes and the criteria which will be necessary for promotion to next classes.
As last year the minster had announced that students might be promoted without actual examination but this year that criteria has changed. He has announced that no student will be promoted just like this, they will have to progress in examination in order to be promoted in the next class.
Murad Raas attended an inter-provisional educational minister’s meeting and after that, he addressed a press conference and during that he stated that the educational institutes will be reopened in phases. The first phase will include students belonging to classes 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, O/A levels. The reopening date for these students will be 18th January, 2021.
Students belonging to classes below 8th will be rejoining schools on 25th January whereas lastly on 1st February, university students will joining their physical classes. Till then, online classes will resume from 11th of January.
