Mumbai Mar 21 PTI Integrated and bilingual textbooks will be introduced for Class I students in Marathi medium schools from the coming academic year Maharashtra School Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad said on Monday Gaikwad made the comments while replying to queries raised by some MLAs in the Assembly Students understand better what is taught to them in their mother tongue But they should also understand English words for Marathi words We are also committed to reducing the burden of their books So we will introduce integrated plus bilingual books from class I in the state the minister said PTI ENM BNM BNM

Mumbai Jan 24 PTI Schools resumed physical sessions for classes 1 to 12 in Maharashtra on Monday and the state government expressed hope that students would enjoy being back to their classrooms in a safe atmosphere Last week the Maharashtra government allowed the offline classes to resume from January 24 after Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray approved a proposal to this effect that was sent to him by the school education department Schools across the state were closed in the first week of January due to a spike in the coronavirus cases and in the wake of the emergence of the highly infectious Omicron variant However a number of parents activists in the field as well as teachers had strongly opposed the move to shut the schools saying it would adversely affect the students In Mumbai the local civic body had earlier announced the closure of schools for Classes 1 to 9 till January 31 But the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporations BMC assessment later indicated that the cases of Omicron infection were not on the rise and it had said the curve was flattening It had prompted officials to propose the reopening of schools for physical attendance On Monday morning Maharashtra School Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad greeted students and parents on the reopening of physical classes Wishing all parents and students the very best as physical classes reopen today onwards We hope you enjoy your day back in a safe atmosphere BackToSchool scertmaha CMOMaharashtra msbshse Gaikwad tweeted In Mumbai also various schools resumed offline classes in the morning Last week BMC Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal had said that in-person or offline classes will resume in pre-primary schools too While allowing the schools to resume physical classes the state government has asked them to strictly adhere to COVID-19 protocols and guidelines On Sunday Maharashtra reported 40805 COVID-19 cases taking its tally to 7507225 while 44 fatalities pushed the toll to 142115 a health department official earlier said No Omicron case was detected in the state on Sunday keeping the tally of those affected by the new variant to 2759 of whom 1437 have been discharged so far the official said PTI KK GK GK

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 28 (ANI): Maharashtra School Education Minister Varsha Eknath Gaikwad on Tuesday tested positive for COVID-19 with mild symptoms.