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Podcast: In Focus by The Hindu
Episode: Can, and should, India reopen schools now? | In Focus
Description: Guest: Anurag Behar, CEO, Azim Premji FoundationEarlier this month, the Indian Council of Medical Research's director general, Dr Balram Bhargava, said that once the country begins to consider re-opening schools, it would be wise to open primary schools before secondary schools, provided all school teachers and staff were vaccinated.A vast majority of schools in India have been shut for over 15 months now, since March 2020, affecting 24 crore students. Various states have opened temporarily for senior classes, sometimes only to shut again when COVID-19 cases rose. Online classes have been around as a substitute, but w...