Bihar: Due to the heat wave, all schools in Patna will reopen on THIS day
Due to the ongoing heatwave, all schools in the Patna district will be closed till June 28. On Saturday, the District Magistrate ruled that all classes up to and including 12th grade would be suspended. The injunction had previously been in force until June 24.
“In continuation to the order vide memo no.-8534/1 of June 16, 2023, it has been made clear to me that the health and lives of children are in danger because of the district’s persistently high temperatures and high humidity levels. As a result, up to June 28, all private and public schools in the Patna District (including preschools and anganwari centres) are prohibited from conducting academic activities up to and including Class 12 in accordance with Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. The District Magistrate announced in an official notice that the order as described above will be in effect as of June 26, 2023, and would last until June 28, 2023.
At Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College in the Gaya district, two people passed away earlier this month from exposure to intense heat.
A high-level conference to examine the public health readiness for the treatment of heat-related disorders was presided over by Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya earlier on Tuesday. He engaged virtually with seven states that are currently experiencing a severe heatwave (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Telangana), including their health ministers, ministers in charge of disaster management, principal secretaries, additional chief secretaries, and information commissioners.
