lucknow some schools in uttar pradesh reopened on monday for students of classes 9 to 12 with strict covid protocols and limited attendancesome other schools said they were getting ready to resume physical classes for students and would reopen soonearlier this month the uttar pradesh government had said that schools would reopen for students of classes 9 to 12 from august 16 with 50 per cent attendancethe cathedral senior secondary school here said about 100 students attended classes mondayoffline classes have resumed for students of classes 9 to 12 today monday about 100 students which is around 20 per cent of the total strength have come to attend classes donald de souza chancellor and spokesperson of the catholic diocese of lucknow told ptisome schools however remained closedla martiniere girls college has not reopened its principal aashrita dass saidprincipal of st francis college lucknow a moras said we are planning to open the school from august 26not all parents were willing to send their children to schoolashit neogy a prayagrajbased businessman whose son is a class 10 student said he was happy with his son attending the online classesneogys son apratim was also apprehensive about attending physical classespuneet mehrotra whose daughter studies in class 9 at a lucknowbased school said he wanted to send her to school but could not due to some technical issues in the consent formhis daughter avna said that she was ready to go to the school and wanted to meet her friendsaccording to the up government order issued earlier this month classes at higher education institutes will resume from september 1in a statement issued here monday the government said that as per the recommendations of the statelevel health specialist advisory committee secondary educational institutes higher vocation and professional educational institutes opened with 50 per cent attendance and teaching commencedthe classes are held in two shifts and covid19 protocol is being strictly adhered to it saidfrom august 23 after rakshabandhan resumption of teaching activity may be considered for classes 6 to 8 while the same could be considered for classes 1 to 5 from september 1 the statement said