Extend summer vacation in JSR schools, parents, trade bodies urge admin

Jamshedpur: With mercury levels soaring and heatwaves on the cards for another few days, parents, business community and political outfits are urging the East Singhbum administration to further extend the summer vacation for the city’s private and government schools.
The Jamshedpur Abhivavak Sangh, a city-based association of parents of school-going children, said summer vacation must be extended till the time the mercury level comes down.

“With daytime temperatures hovering around 44°C, it is not at all the ideal weather for the children to got o schools,” JAS president Umesh Kumar said on Friday. “A JAS delegation will meet East Singhbhum deputy commissioner Vijaya Jadhav and urge her to extend the summer break for another 10 days,” Kumar told TOI.
Office-bearers of the Singhbhum Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has also urged the district administration to extend summer vacations considering the scorching heat and heatwave conditions.
"Some schools have been reopened while a few will be reopen from Monday. The children will suffer under the present weather conditions if the vacation is not extended,” SCCI president Vijay Anand Moonka said.
Senior BJP leader Ramesh Hansdah on Friday wrote a letter to the district education superintendent (DES) of the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district and urged for the extension of the vacations for another few days. "The pre-nursery and primary class students cannot bear the present heatwave conditions, it is the need of hour to extend the vacations," Hansdah, the national committee member of BJP’s ST Morcha, said.
However, city’s private English medium schools are sticking to their pre-announced schedule of resuming classes post vacations. "If there is a direction from the district administration than we would postpone the reopening of the school. Presently, we are going ahead with pre-announced schedule," said St Mary's English School spokesperson A K Pandey. Further, he said the school hours from Monday will be the same as it was prior to the vacations (6.30 am to 11.30 am).
"Almost all the English medium schools in the city will reopen on June 12. Hopefully, the administration shall take a call by today or tomorrow," said Anuradha, the mother of a Class V student of Kerala Samajam Model School (KSMS).