JNTUH Instructions to the Principals to comply with Covid-19 pandemic

 JNTUH The Principals of the colleges are informed to note the following advisory due to Covid-19 pandemic, while making preparations and conducting the semester examinations:

• All the students and staff members must wear masks while they are on the campus.
• Thermal scanning has to be carried out at the place of entry into the campus to all students and the staff.
• Sanitizers are to be provided at the entrance of the campus/building and the security on-duty must ensure that every staff member / student clean their hand with the liquid sanitizers. The security should allow those, who only wear masks.
• Social distancing measures must be implemented as per Government guidelines in current scenario of Covid-19 to ensure health and safety of the candidates at every place viz. inside the examination halls, places of common amenities like wash rooms and while walking on the roads in the campus.
• Appropriate measures need to be taken to maintain sufficient distancing while operating the college buses.
• All the examination halls and college buses are to be sanitized on regular basis.
• If any student falls sick, he/she should be kept in isolated place; proper care and appropriate first aid treatment must be rendered.
• It is advisable to maintain the same seating plans and seating places for the students who appear for all regular examinations (However this provision may not be feasible to supplementary examinations).
• The examination hall seating arrangements should be such that, only one person per bench is to be allocated (students should be seated either left extreme place or right extreme place on the 3/4 seater bench) and in successive benches the seating may be arranged in zigzag manner, so that the students sitting on successive benches do not sit in one single row.
• Each class room must be allocated to not more than half of the original allotment of students; ie a class room used for 24 students in the earlier semester exams, is to be used for not more than 12 students.
• Students must be permitted to bring their own water bottles and hand sanitizers. Sharing of pens or any other stationary items among the students is strictly prohibited in the exam hall.