This is even as school managements are insisting on promotion to higher classes. Kids, who joined LKG, when corona first broke out, are now being asked to join the first standard instead of UKG.

Block education officer M Vivekananda has said that there are 667 seats under RTE Act available for poor children for admission to LKG and class I in Mysuru taluk.

Heads of panchayat union schools with attached anganwadis where LKG and UKG classes are being conducted are awaiting instructions from the School Education Department on deployment of teaching staff.