Students bombard colleges with online class queries

Students seeking admissions to first-year undergraduate courses are asking colleges to provide them with details of the online teaching facilities available in the institutions.

Students are keen to know the information, mainly because they are not sure when colleges will reopen, principals of several colleges have said.

Many students are telling colleges that even if the institutions reopen after a few months, they may find it difficult to use public transport from faraway places. So, they will have to depend on online classes.

Jaydeep Sarangi, the principal of New Alipore College, said an applicant had called him on Saturday. The student told him he lived in Subhasgram on the city’s southern outskirts and that he would have to travel by local train to attend classes.