The Goa government taking a decision to reopen schools from Std I to XII from February 21 onwards there was a good turnout of students at many schools with most of the students expressing their hapiness over the re-opening of school.

As Covid-19 cases have been reducing day by day in the state, it was decided by the competent authority to re-open all the educational institutions from Std 1 to Std XII from February 21 by following Covid-19 appropriate behaviour and as per SOP guidelines enclosed an order issued by the directorate of higher education had stated

Schools which had only partially reopened late last year following a drop in cases for students of the higher classes were shut following a reemergence of cases owing to the Omicron wave of the virus
Primary and middle schools had opened yet for students to attend classes since they were shut at the time of the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 and instead schools were asked to hold online classes for students.

“We are happy to attend school and meet our friends and study in the offline mode after a long time as online classes were really difficult due to network issues and to study in offline mode was really a problem ” said a student.