Students upbeat in Punjab as classes resume

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Students are upbeat in Punjab after physical classes right from the pre-primary started on Monday following the government’s decision to reopen schools for all classes amid drop in COVID-19 cases. At the government primary school in Kambali, students and teachers are jubilant. Most of the children were seen following the COVID-19 appropriate behaviours even as the fear surrounding the spread of COVID-19 hasn’t completely faded away. “All the classes have started today and the cheerfulness among them is clearly visible. While we had been holding classes online during the past over one year, physical classes are better practice. There are children whose families are not financially very sound and and cannot afford cell phone or laptop or at times spending on Internet data is a problem,” Parminder Kaur, head teacher, told The Hindu.