COVID-19 Surge: Manipur announces early summer vacations for all schools from May 1

All the government, aided and private schools affiliated to the Board of Secondary Education Manipur and Council of Higher Secondary Education Manipur will remain closed for the entire month.

Amid the rise in coronavirus positive cases in the country, the Manipur government has announced that summer vacation for all schools under the state board and higher secondary council from May 1 to 31, 2021. All the government, aided and private schools affiliated to the Board of Secondary Education Manipur and Council of Higher Secondary Education Manipur will remain closed for the entire month.
Manipur Government has directed all heads of institutions—principals, vice-principals, headmaster, headmistress to make an arrangement for detailing at least four to five staff members by making an appropriate daily roster of them (teaching and non-teaching). The order has further instructed authorities to ensure their attendance in the institutions and to render unavoidable official duties during the period of vacation.

The official order also stated to ensure necessary arrangement for the commencement of online classes till summer vacation starts. “To ensure that necessary arrangement/preparations are made for commencement/resumption of online teaching/learning exercise on re-opening of classes of the summer vacation or until further order whichever is earlier.”

The Manipur Board has also announced that it hasdecided to postpone the upcoming board examinations for classes 10 and 12. Earlier, Manipur HSLC exams were scheduled to be conducted between May 6 and May 28, 2021, while the Manipur Class 12 examinations were scheduled to be conducted from May 5 and continue until June 9.

Along with Manipur, several other state governments including Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Telangana and West Bengal has also announced early summer vacation this year for their respective government and private schools after considering the rising COVID-19 cases. Usually, most of the schools in these states declare their summer vacation from May and continue till early July.

However, with the sudden surge in coronavirus cases in the states, the education departments of respective state have announced early summer vacations.

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