After almost 19 months, students will be back on college campuses today, but not all activities will start at once. Even as colleges prepare to welcome students back safely by sanitising classrooms, campuses, laboratories and libraries, and also by preparing lists of dos and don’ts so that everyone follows the Covid-19 protocols, students will still have to wait for a full-fledged college reopening till post the Diwali break.

Many city colleges will start with only in-person science practical sessions and theory lectures will follow later. As exams are going on for some degree courses through the online mode, those students will return to campus only after Diwali. Considering the SOPs issued by Mumbai University and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, colleges are designing their own rules and regulations through the Covid vigilance committees formed on campuses.