In-person classes in colleges and universities in the state are unlikely to be held in the upcoming semester, to start in April, because of a fresh rise in the number of Covid-19 cases, an official in the education department said.
The spike in cases has also prompted the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur, to defer implementing its decision to recall final-year BTech students to the campus.
Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, an autonomous college under Calcutta University, has issued a notice announcing that it will conduct mid-semester, tutorial examinations and internal assessment in the online mode in the upcoming semester.
RKM convocation minus guardians
The Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous) in Narendrapur will hold its convocation on March 6 but degree recipients have been asked not to bring guardians for the event to avoid crowding amid the Covid pandemic.
The ceremony will be held at an auditorium on the campus that can accommodate 950 students, an official of the college said.
“Around 140 outgoing undergraduate and postgraduate students will come to the campus to receive their degrees,” said Swami Shastrajnananda, the principal of the college.
Students who would not be able to attend the convocation will have to go to the campus later to collect their degree certificates in a staggered way.
Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira charges reduced fees Financial woes prompt RKM college to offer partial waiver
Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira in Belur has been charging reduced hostel and college fees since November because of the financial constraints students are facing amid the pandemic.
The extent of reduction varies from 30 to 40 per cent on an average for undergraduate and postgraduate students. The partial waiver is likely to continue till in-person classes resume.
A comparison with the fee structure in effect till October reveals that the monthly college fee for the third-year English (honours) students has been reduced from Rs 700 to Rs 500. The fee for the second-year students has been brought down from Rs 900 to Rs 600.
Terror has no link with colour Christian priest at RKM Xmas Eve programme
Terror has no colour, nor does love, said a priest of the archdiocese of Calcutta at the Christmas Eve celebrations at Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Narendrapur.
In the same way, violence has no colour, said Father Rodney Borneo on Thursday evening. He voiced his reservations about the term “saffron terror”, because he said: “Terror does not come from clothing, it resides within a person.”
“Today, many are using a word which pains me and that is saffron terror. What is this? Terror has no colour.if I wear white, do I become a good person, if I wear green, so I become a good person, and if someone wears saffron, he becomes bad? No. Violence has no colour, violence is in the heart,” said Father Borneo, the principal of Loyola High School.