Nagpur, 10 June

(HS): The schools in the Vidarbha Region

of Maharashtra will reopen on June 22. The schools in other areas of the state

are scheduled to open on June 15.

The Education

Department issues a notification on June 9 and informed the schools concerned.

The decision came following a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) filed at the

Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court. The court had sought reply from the

State Government to be filed by June 9.

The petitioner

had stated that the climate is hot and humid in the Vidarbha Region during June.

The petitioner had pleaded deferring the date of school, as many students in

the past have fell unconscious during the period due to high temperature.

The classes from

June 22 to 30 however, will be conducted in the morning between 7 am and 11.45

am.

The Vidarbha

region is still facing temperature above 40 degree Celsius.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Ajay Vasant Mardikar