Nagpur, 11 June

(HS): The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court snubbed the Education Department

for issuing notification relating to reopening of schools in the Vidarbha

region, a day before the hearing in the court. The Education Department on June

9 issued notification to reopen schools in Vidarbha on June 22. The hearing on

a PIL on the issue was fixed on June 10.

The High Court

also directed the Education Department to reopen schools in the Vidarbha region

on June 30, as per the decision taken on April 20, 2023.

The decision to

defer the date of reopening the schools is related to hot and humid climate in

the Vidarbha region. The High Court in 2007 had directed the Education

Department to consider high temperatures prevailing in June in the region. The

Court also scrapped the two notifications issued by the department – relating to

school reopening schools on June 15 and on June 22, issued on March 28 and June

9, 2026.

The HS bench

comprising Justice Anil Kilor and Justice Raju Wakode on Wednesday directed the

Education Department to reopen schools in The Vidarbha region on June 30.

The temperature

in the region is still hovering over 40 degrees Celsius 4 to 6 degrees above

normal. Brahmapuri in Chandrapur district registered 45.5 degree, while Nagpur

recorded 43.8 degrees. The supposed to be coolest district in the region,

Buldana, also recorded temperature at 40.3 degree Celsius.

The students in

rural areas have to walk to and from the schools in the scorching heat.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Ajay Vasant Mardikar