Coronavirus: Which states have shut schools and colleges?

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Team Careers360 | March 17, 2020 | 04:54 PM IST

By Atul Krishna and R Radhika

NEW DELHI: Over the past week, universities and colleges across states have suspended classes, cancelled convocations and asked students to vacate campuses in an effort to control the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. More than half the states have either shut all schools or suspended work for some classes. Some states have shut down all institutions.

India has already had 114 confirmed cases of infections and it has seen two deaths. With no vaccine in sight, the practice of “social distancing” and maintaining high standards of hygiene have been judged our best bet against the pandemic. After discussions with a high level group of ministers on Monday, the health ministry has released nine social distancing measures to contain the spread.

Given below is the complete list of states that have so far announced full or partial closure of educational institutions, the duration for which they will be shut and the major institutions that have made announcements of their own.

States	Educational institutions closed	Major institutions closed
Assam	All (March 15 - 29)	Dibrugarh University
Assam	All (March 15 - 29)	Gauhati University
Arunachal Pradesh	All (March 17- April 5)
Bihar	All (March 13 - 31)	Mahatma Gandhi Central University
Bihar	All (March 13 - 31)	Patna University
Chhattisgarh	All (March 13 - 31)	Hidyatulla National Law University
Chhattisgarh	All (March 13 - 31)	National Institute of Technology, Raipur
Goa	All (March 16-31)	NIT Goa
Gujarat	All (March 15 - 29)	IIM- Ahmedabad
Gujarat	All (March 15 - 29)	IIT-Gandhinagar
Haryana	All (March 13 - 31)	Ashoka University
		NIT Kurukshetra
		SRM University
Himachal Pradesh	All (March 14 - 31)	Central University of Himachal Pradesh
Jharkhand	All (March 17 - April 14)
Karnataka	All (March 14 - 31)	Central University of Karnataka
		Visvesvarya Technological University
		Banglore University
		Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences
		National Law University of India
Kerala	All (March 11 - 31)	NIT Calicut
		Government Law College, Calicut University
		Cochin University of Science and Technology
Madhya Pradesh	All (March 13 - 31)	-
Maharashtra	All in urban areas(March 15-31)	IIT Bombay
		Amity Univ. Maharashtra
		Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University
Manipur	All (March 12-31)	-
Meghalaya	All (March 16-31)	North-Eastern Hill University
Mizoram	All (March 16-37)
Nagaland	All (March 17- April 12)
Odisha	All (March 13 - 31)	National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
		Central University of Odisha
		National Law University of Odisha (NLUO)
Punjab	All (March 13 - 31)	Central University of Punjab
Punjab	All (March 13 - 31)	Rajiv Gandhi National Law University, Patiala
Rajasthan	All (March 14 - 31)	University of Rajasthan
Rajasthan	All (March 14 - 31)	BITS-Pilani
Sikkim	All (March 16 - April 15)
Tamil Nadu	All (March 16 - 31)	Central University of Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu	All (March 16 - 31)	Vellore Institute of Technology
Telangana	All (March 13 - 31)	University of Hyderabad
Telangana	All (March 13 - 31)	English and Foreign Languages University
Tripura	All (March 16-31)	NIT Agartala
Uttarakhand	All except medical colleges (March 15 - 31)	IIT Roorkee
Uttar Pradesh	All (March 13 - April 2)	Aligarh Muslim University
		Banarus Hindu University
		Lucknow University
		Shiv Nadar University
		IIT-Kanpur
West Bengal	All (March 15- April 15)	IIT Kharagpur
		Jadavpur University
		Visva Bharati University
		University of Calcutta
Chandigarh	All (March 13 - 31)	Panjab University
Delhi	All (March 12 - 31)	University of Delhi
		Jamia Millia Islamia
		Jawaharlal Nehru University
		Indian Institute of Technology- Delhi
Ladakh	All ( March 11-31)
Pondicherry	All primary schools (indefinitely from March 16)	Pondicherry University
Jammu & Kashmir	All ( March 11-31)	NIT Srinagar

Note: This copy has been updated to include Tamil Nadu's announcement. There may be further updates as states announce closure of institutions or modify existing orders.