In wake of coronavirus outbreak, Jamia Millia Ismalia on Thursday said the university will remain closed till April 14.
According to notification issued on Thursday, the university shall remain closed till April 14 except for essential services like medical, water, sanitation, where minimum operational staff shall be deputed on rotational basis.
“The University will organise a seven-session JMI-Online Faculty Development for the benefit of all faculty members of the university. The aministration will evolve and facilitate alternative ways of engaging with students through online teaching-learning process,” stated the notification.
“All faculty members are advised to use interactive tools extensively like SWAYAM in addition to Skype, Webcast, Google Hangouts, and Google Chats to engage students for online teaching and evaluation. The University library has enabled remote access to a wide variety of Subscribed and Open Educational Resource,” stated the notification.
“Students staying back in the hostels to be looked after in terms of essential messing, care, hygiene and medical counselling. The Counselling Centre has been activated to deal with the distressed caused by COVID-19 including tele-counselling services for students and staff members,” stated the notification.