Universities in Tirupati turn abuzz as ‘excited’ students land on campuses
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As the federal government eased the norms for bodily attendance, offline mode of training is again once more for many students, who’re nevertheless required to observe the rules to maintain the virus at bay.
The universities in Tirupati bubbled with life this week, with students slowly, but steadily, arriving into their respective campuses, after remaining abandoned for a very long time as a result of lockdown necessitated by COVID-19. As the federal government eased the norms for bodily attendance, offline mode of training is again once more for many students, who’re nevertheless required to observe the rules on carrying masks, washing palms usually with sanitiser and sustaining bodily distance to maintain the virus at bay.
Around 60-75% of students at Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS University) have reached the campus. The precedence, nevertheless, is to permit solely these whose presence is totally vital. “We are allowing into the campus only those having practical sessions or examinations. The online format continues for those having theory classes”, SVIMS Director and Vice-Chancellor B. Vengamma advised The Puucho. Though MBBS students have arrived at Sri Padmavathi Medical College for Women (SPMCW), the SVIMS College of Physiotherapy and College of Nursing are nonetheless on on-line mode. Shortage of hostel area is one other handicap. “We are accommodating only two inmates in a room against the five in the past to ensure social distance, which has a telling effect on space”, Dr. Vengamma defined.
More than 900 students have arrived at Sri Padmavathi Mahila Viswa Vidyalayam (SPMVV) campus, which not solely displays their eagerness for teachers, but in addition the compulsion to get again to the ‘good old days’ on campus. The varsity authorities have made all preparations to minimise the extent of publicity. “We have segregated the students batch-wise and are conducting classes on the odd-even pattern. With this, students of first batch (first and third semesters) and the second batch (second and fourth semesters) will attend on alternate days”, says SPMVV Registrar D.M. Mamatha. The precedence is to finish the syllabus for the ultimate 12 months students, who must depart the campus on time to pursue their additional ambitions, be it larger training or employment, Prof. Mamatha added.
Breaking away from the confines of their dwelling, the excited first 12 months students had enjoyable and frolic on the ice-breaking session performed by SPMVV Department of Biosciences and Sericulture. Heaving a sigh of reduction from the ‘piled-up frustration’ over the protracted lockdown interval, some students referred to as it a ‘red-lettered day’, whereas some sang movie songs to pep up the temper earlier than the truncated educational schedule will get a delayed begin in a few days.
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