Howrah: IIEST re-opens campus for test

HOWRAH: The Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, was perhaps among the first in the country to reopen its campus and hold an exam there.
But classes will continue online and nothing has yet been decided on re-opening the campus for it.
Following precautionary measures, the test was held as an experiment to see whether on-campus exams was possible at all or not in the changed circumstances. Fifty-nine students sat for the supplementary papers held on Wednesday and Thursday; only one student was absent.Those from far-off places had requested for hostel accommodation and checked out on Friday.
The exams were held for for UG final-year and PG first-year students and the institute will now consider conducting other pending exams.
The exam halls were sanitised and masked candidates were first checked for their temperature and then, made to sit at a distance from each other. The answer scripts were also sanitised . “Some students needed hostel. We made arrangements after sanitising the hostels thoroughly,” said spokesperson Nirmalya Kumar Bhattacharyya.