Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal launches new academic calendar for Classes 6 to 8

The Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank today released an alternative academic calendar for classes 6 to 8. The alternative academic schedule is for the next two months.

HRD Minister, in his tweet, mentioned, “Alternative Academic Calendar for upper primary stage (Classes VI to VIII) for four weeks was released earlier. I have launched the academic calendar for the next eight weeks



today.”

The academic calendar contained detailed guidelines on online learning. “The calendar further aims to empower our students, teachers, school principals & parents with positive ways to deal with Covid19 via online teaching-learning resources and achieve the best possible learning outcomes,” the minister tweeted.

The alternative academic calendar for the upper primary stage, classes 9, 10, 11, 12 was released earlier.