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Chandra Gope, DeepayanGope, Aditya Gope  \nAbstract: The higher educational institutions and universities were forced to be shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic and came up with an alternative to resume the teaching-learning process via a digital mode of education. Due to many shortcomings in the digital mode of education, it is now necessary to reopen educational institutions. As students are important stakeholders, the views and suggestions are necessary before actually taking a decision on reopening the educational institutions . With objectives on reopening of educational institutions, modification in the course curriculum due to many problems faced by students during online teaching-learning process, health and safety protocols to be followed,etc, 21 questions are designed. Likert scale is used in data collections and analysed using various statistical tools.The students have different views on the reopening of the institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The practical or project-based course curriculum irrespective of offline or online mode of teaching is suggested by most of the students. On the health and safety protocols, the percentage of students giving priorities for creation of disinfection room, handsanitization station entry and common places and regular health checkup are 74.82%, 80.69% and 74.48%, respectively. On the issue of the health and safety rule implementation, 92.4 % of students committed to pledge to adhere to the health and safety protocols, but 72.9% of students expressed that it would be difficult to enforce health and safety measures to the students inside the institution.  \nKeywords: COVID-19 pandemic , emergency remoteeducation , higher education , social and health issues, course curriculum.  \nHighlights  \nWhat is already known about this topic:  \n• Higher education institutions have students from all over India, studying in various institutions or universities.  \n• The novel coronavirus outbreak that originated at Wuhan in China in late January 2020 forced the educational institutions to close down.  \nWhat this paper contributes:  \n• A substantial majority of the students want to continue their study through online teaching mode till the cases of COVID comes under control.  \n• Students suggested practical or project-based course curriculum irrespective of offline or online mode of teaching.  \n• The health and safety protocols are more important aspects if institutions are reopened during COVID-19.  \nImplications for theory, practice and/or policy:  \n• Present online teaching and learning mode adopted by many institutions are not adequate and major changes are required.  \n• The alternate measures suggested by the students to follow the safety guidelines may betaken on reopening of the institutions for the implementation of the health and safety protocols.  \nIntroduction  \nThe novel coronavirus outbreak originated at Wuhan in China in late January 2020 and China declared a lockdown for its 11 million residents. Furthermore, it got spread across other countries rapidly. The COVID-19 pandemic in India is a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) . The first case of COVID-19 in India was reported on 30 January 2020. A 14-hour voluntary public curfew was called by the Indian Prime Minister on March 22, 2020. The first nationwide lockdown was declared by the Government of India on 24 March 2020 affecting a population of 1.3 billion. On 14 April, the Prime Minister extended the ongoing nationwide lockdown further till 3 May 2020. On 1 May 2020 lockdown across the country was further extended by two more weeks till 17 May. On 17 May, NDMA further extended the nationwide lockdown till 31 May. 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