Odisha schools to revise class time due to cold wave
December 20th, 2011 - 7:35 pm ICT by IANSBhubaneswar, Dec 20 (IANS) With a cold wave sweeping most parts of the region, schools in Odisha’s forested Kandhamal district have been asked to hold day-classes, an official said Tuesday.
The district headquarter town of Phulbani, about 200 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, has been experiencing less than six degrees Celsius temperature since the past few days.
The minimum temperature was recorded at less than three degrees Celsius in some interior places of the district this week, district collector Rajesh Prabhakar Patil told IANS.
“We have asked all the schools in the district to re-schedule their school hours,” he said.
Patil said the school authorities have been asked to hold day-classes in place of morning classes from tomorrow (Wednesday).
The Bhubaneswar meteorological centre said the cold wave conditions would continue to prevail in the interior parts of the state during the next 48 hours.
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