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"Bengaluru: With nearly 35% of students attending physical classes from 6-8 and 52% students attending 9-10 classes, Karnataka government is mulling to start classes from 1-5. The government is looking to open classes for primary sections with the declining number of Covid cases in the state.\r\n\r\nKarnataka Education Minister BC Nagesh on Saturday said that a decision on starting physical classes will be taken soon after consulting with experts from technical advisory committee.\r\n\r\n&quot;A committee meeting with experts will be held soon, a decision will be made soon after taking consent from various stakeholders&amp;rdquo; he added.\r\n\r\nLast month, on August 23, the Karnataka government started physical classes for schools and colleges from 9-12. After receiving a positive response parents and students, the state is now looking at starting classes for primary sections.\r\n\r\nFor long, the technical advisory committee formed to analyse and control the spread of Covid third wave has been suggesting that schools should re-open for the benefit of the children.\r\n\r\nRECOMMENDATIONS FROM TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON RE-OPENING SCHOOLS:&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n\r\n\tIt is recommended to open schools physically to optimize learning, physical health, mental health and Nutritional aspects of children.\r\n\tAny further delay in school reopening may push children into malnutrition, child labour, child marriage, child trafficking, begging etc., making their condition further worse.\r\n\tThe outreach programs and learning through remote modalities i.e. digital learning has achieved for less than the expected goals and also created large gaps in learning creating educational inequality.\r\n\tIndian Academy of Paediatrics opines that large number of children will be asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic.\r\n\tThe possibility of schools being areas of large transmission has not been proved anywhere in the world.\r\n\tDecentralization of decision making on school opening up to School Development Monitoring Committee.\r\n\r\n\r\nWith several of the experts studying the Covid trend and also doctors from Indian Academy of Paediatrics telling that the impending third wave could have an effect on children, the government is looking to taken an informed decision with caution before starting classes for children.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn view of this, the government had recently in its guidelines suggested that schools in districts that have more than 2 per cent Covid positivity rate won&amp;rsquo;t be allowed to open. Other stringent measures put forth by the state government have been restricting the movement of students, employees, especially entering the state from Kerala till October 31.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;\r\n"
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