All schools in the Kashmir Valley will remain closed on Monday 21st April, said Minister of Education Jammu and Kashmir Sakina Itoo on Sunday.
The decision comes in the middle of the IMD warning against unfavorable weather in Jammu and Kashmir, predicts a storm and strong winds.
“With regard to the ongoing serious weather conditions and predictions, it was decided that the class at all schools of the valley will remain suspended tomorrow (April 21) for one day,” ITOO said in post X.
The Minister has developed that the decision was made as a preliminary step to ensure security.
“This decision was taken as a preventive step to ensure the safety and well -being of all students.”
The order from the Office of the Division Commissioner confirmed this.
“Given the prevailing unfavorable weather conditions and as a preventive measure, all government and private schools of Kashmiri division will remain closed on day 21-04-2025,” the command said.
“However, all pedagogical and unread workers will continue to participate in their duties as usual,” he added.
Ramban schools, universities closed
Meanwhile, all government and private schools, universities and technical institutions in the Ramban Jammu and Kashmir district will remain closed with regard to landslides and lightning floods caused by extreme rain on Monday, April 21.
The Commissioner’s representative announced on the day of the X announcement and urged people in this area to stay inside.
“Given the bad weather and heavy rains causing lightning floods, all government and private schools, universities and institutions in technical education in the Ramban district will remain on 21.04.2025. Stay inside, stay safe,” said the Commissioner.
Sunday rainfall due to cloudbursts caused on Sunday on Sunday in the district of Jammu and Kashmir in the Ramban district in Jammu and Kashmir, so three people remained dead and damaged the scores of houses, shops and roads, while more than 100 people were saved.
Many villages were cut off from the district mansion because the roads were swept during lightning floods. Cloudburst hit the village of Seri Bagna, resulting in the death of three people – Aqib Ahmad (12), his brother Mohda Saqib (10) and their neighbor Muni RAM (65).
Hundreds of vehicles were left for a strategic 250 kilometer of Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, the only road in any weather connecting Kashmir with the rest of the country was suspended due to the ruins of the mountains that block the route on almost dozen between Nashi and Banihal.
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