In view of the increasing cold wave in North India, the Jharkhand government announced the closure of government and private schools for students of classes KG to 5 in the state till January 14. Regular classes will resume on January 16.
Private and government schools will remain closed till January 14 for students of class KG to 5th in Jharkhand falling temperature due to cold wave in North India. State government issued notice on Sunday
"In view of the cold wave conditions, schools in Jharkhand will remain closed till January 14 for students from KG to 5th standard and regular classes will resume from January 16," the government said in the notice.
Significantly, the schools were already closed due to winter vacation and were about to open soon. In the order, the winter vacation has been extended till January 14.
Jharkhand has joined the list of other states like Bihar and Delhi which have issued orders to keep schools closed. Recently Patna District Magistrate Chandrashekhar Singh announced the closure of government and private schools up to class 10 in the state till January 14.
The DM said in the notice, "In view of the cold wave conditions, schools in Patna for students up to class 10 will remain closed till January 14."
Cold wave is likely to prevail over entire North India including Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi, North Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
"Cold day to severe cold day conditions were observed at most places in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, at many places in Bihar; at a few places over North Rajasthan and North Madhya Pradesh. Cold day conditions were also observed at a few places in Delhi. The situation has been registered, the IMD said.
The weather forecasting agency has also issued a red alert for severe cold for the next 1-2 days in parts of North India including Delhi.
Delhi is colder than popular hill-station destinations
The lowest temperature of the season has been recorded in some parts of Delhi. This makes them older than some of the popular tourist destinations in the sub-Himalayan region, RK Jennamani, Meteorologist, IMD told ANI.
"The Western Disturbance, which was expected to break this cold wave, has not been very effective. A large part of the North Indian belt including Delhi, North Madhya Pradesh, North Rajasthan, Punjab and West Uttar Pradesh is colder than Shimla " , Manali and western Himalayan region where minimum temperatures have increased," he said.
He said that the minimum temperature of 1.5 degree Celsius was recorded in the ridge area of Delhi University today. Safdarjung, the capital's official weather station, recorded a minimum temperature of 2.2 degrees Celsius, while Lodhi Road recorded 2 degrees Celsius.
He said that northern India, some parts of Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, northern Madhya Pradesh, western Uttar Pradesh would experience severe cold till January 10. Whereas, there will be some relief from the cold from January 9.
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