MUSCAT: More than 3,000 students from Indian schools in Oman have obtained transfer certificates with their parents leaving Oman in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, The Arabian Stories has learnt.
Ever since Covid-19 began, more than 85,000 Indians were flown home from Oman in various repatriation flights from May till September. However, the decline in Indian expats in the country “did not have a huge impact in students obtaining transfer certificates,” said a senior Board of Directors official. There are 46,000 students studying in 21 Indian schools in the country.
According to sources, more than 400 students took transfer certificates from Indian School Sohar, followed by over 350 from Indian School Muscat and over 300 TCs were issued from Indian School Salalah. “Overall if you look there is only around 5% drop in students,” the official said.
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“As we are conducting classes online, those students who are stranded in India are also attending schools unaffected and this is an advantage for them,” the BOD official pointed out.
Meanwhile, among the other community schools, Pakistan schools have issued over 400 transfer certificates, while only 56 per cent of students have enrolled for online class in Bangladesh schools in the Sultanate.
According to the report provided by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI), there has been a drop of more than 200,000 expats in the country in the last six months. The total expat population now stands at 1,728,568.
