COVID-19: Madhya Pradesh closes schools for Classes 1 to 8 till April 15
Team Careers360 | March 30, 2021 | 01:34 PM IST | 1 min read
COVID-19: Madhya Pradesh School Education Department said that the earlier instructions will remain for Classes 9 to 12.
NEW DELHI : The Madhya Pradesh Government, on Tuesday, announced that all classes for Classes 1 to 8 will be closed till April 15 owing to the rising COVID-19 cases in the state.
The government had earlier announced that the new session will resume for Classes 1 to 8 from April 1.
Madhya Pradesh School Education Department, in a circular, said: “Based on the committee decision taken on December 4, 2020, schools were shut for Classes 1 to 8 till March 31. Considering the rising COVID-19 cases, it has been decided that schools will remain shut for Classes 1 to 8 till April 15, 2021.”
The department also said that the earlier instructions will remain for Classes 9 to 12.
States such as Chattisgarh , Himachal Pradesh , Telangana , and Uttar Pradesh already announced school closures due to rising COVID-19 cases. However, Karnataka had allowed offline classes to continue.
#COVID19 के संक्रमण में विगत दिनों में हो रही वृद्धि को दृष्टिगत रखते हुए सभी शासकीय एवं अशासकीय स्कूल कक्षा 1 से 8वीं तक कक्षाओं को दिनांक 15 अप्रैल 2021 तक बंद रखेंगे। कक्षा 9 से 12वीं तक की कक्षाओं के लिए पूर्व में जारी किये गये निर्देश यथावत रहेंगे। @Indersinghsjp pic.twitter.com/Z7WlYTQ1sR
— School Education Department, MP (@schooledump) March 30, 2021
Write to us at news@careers360.com .
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Next Story
]Featured News
]- Experts propose 7 spots for university townships in education ministry’s post-budget webinar
- Primary school teachers in Karnataka must serve 12 years before promotion, say new recruitment rules
- JNU, TISS Mumbai, BHU: Student unions vanish from universities with elections scrapped, councils taking over
- Students in University of Aberdeen, Mumbai, get credential exactly the same they’d get in Scotland: COO
- ‘IIMC to upgrade all journalism and mass communication courses to MA degrees, phase out PG diplomas’: VC
- Rebuilding Calcutta University: VC Ashutosh Ghosh’s priorities are recruitment, fixing finances, reforms
- PARAKH’s Foundational Learning Study 2026 to cover 1 lakh Class 3 students across 10,000 schools
- Telangana: Government Degree College Vikarabad moves out of school and into DIET campus
- ‘Shouldn’t open universities like shops’: Odisha higher education expands but students rue plummeting quality
- Dual degrees, faculty exchange: States bet on foreign university tie-ups, but fine print tells another story