KOLKATA: The state government on Saturday extended the free vaccination programme to all teaching and non-teaching staff of private
schools
in Kolkata, a crucial step towards preparing to reopen schools. All schools located in
Kolkata Municipal Corporation
area will be covered under the scheme, which will be undertaken at specified venues from June 16.
In a communiqué to private schools affiliated to CISCE and CBSE, the school commissioner wrote that the schools will have to submit details of the teaching and non-teaching staff who are yet to be vaccinated with either both the doses or the second dose. “We have been told to submit the details within Monday at 2pm,” informed a school principal. He added that the registration will have to be done by the schools.
“It is important that we start to bring back students to schools at the earliest. The existing situation is detrimental to the future of the students,” said a principal. Another school head explained that the decision will build confidence among parents.
“Group D staffs of several schools are hesitating to spend the considerable amount of money to get vaccinated. This initiative will allow mass vaccination in the school,” said South Point School spokesperson Krishna Damani. Several private schools and colleges have already started holding camps to vaccinate teachers and staff.
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