<span style="color: #222222;">In Odisha, classroom teaching for students of standard 1 to 7 is scheduled to begin from today. Classes from std 8 to 12 have already started from the 7 th of this month in physical mode. Ahead of the re-opening of the schools for class 1 to 7, the state school & mass education department has held parents' and guardians' meets in all the thirty districts so as to ensure smooth school-connect for the students who have been kept away from schools for the last two years due to the pandemic. </span>