It is peaceful in Tirunelveli
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The district witnessed peaceful polling on Tuesday and recorded 66.54 poll percentage. Poll percentage in these 5 segments – Tirunelveli, Ambasamudram, Palayamkottai, Nanguneri and Radhapuram - in 2016 Assembly election was 69. Speaking to reporters after casting his vote in a booth at St. John’s Higher Secondary School in Palayamkottai, Collector V. Vishnu said the polling was going on smoothly as all arrangements had been put in place and reviewed. The EVMs would be taken to Government College of Engineering, Palayamkottai, the counting centre, by 157 teams, each led by a Zonal Officer, he said.
Model booths with reception team, decorated shamiyana, chairs for waiting voters and medical team had been established at Madharasa School in Kailaasapuram, MDT Higher Secondary School, Tirunelveli Junction, Loyola Convent in Palayamkottai, ‘All Women Booth’ at St. John’s Higher Secondary School attracted every
Ranchi: Instead of waiting for directives from the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA), many schools have decided not to start offline classes from Monday. Following the directives of the Centre and the state, the schools had earlier agreed to conduct offline classes for senior students from the fresh session. But given the unprecedented surge in Covid cases, they have decided not to risk the health of students.
Bishop Westcott group of schools has already circulated a message to the students to this effect informing that online classes will continue for Classes KG to X. Sixteen staff members of the group’s girls’ school in Namkom were found infected after a parent-teacher meeting in the second half of March.