Telangana schools closed for two days due to heavy rains
Press Trust of India | July 20, 2023 | 09:54 AM IST | 1 min read
Telangana Schools Closed: The IMD has predicted heavy to very heavy rains to occur at isolated places in the state. Schools closed till Friday.
HYDERABAD: Heavy rains continue to lash Telangana for the third day prompting the state government to declare holidays for schools on Thursday and Friday. Education Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy put out a tweet regarding the closure of schools for the two days.
"Keeping in view of the heavy rainfall in the state and under the instructions of the Honourable CM, KCR garu, the Govt has decided to declare holidays for two days to all education institutions in the state. That is Thursday and Friday," the Minister said on her Twitter handle.
According to India Meteorological Department (IMD) website, heavy to very heavy rains are very likely to occur at isolated places in Adilabad, Komaram Bheem Asifabad, Jagityal, Rajanna Sirsilla, Karimnagar, Peddapalli, and Jayashankar Bhupalpally districts of Telangana today.
In the wake of the fast rising Godavari river water levels at Bhadrachalam, District Collector Priyanka Ala alerted the government machinery to be on high alert. Godavari is flowing at 40 feet at 9 am on Thursday even as 8,05,158 cusecs of water is being released downstream, an official release said.
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Next Story
]Featured News
]- Telangana: Government Degree College Vikarabad moves out of school and into DIET campus
- ‘Shouldn’t open universities like shops’: Odisha higher education expands but students rue plummeting quality
- Dual degrees, faculty exchange: States bet on foreign university tie-ups, but fine print tells another story
- JK Lakshmipat University VC on education in AI era: ‘Every course, every classroom must evolve’
- CBSE Curriculum 2026-27: Three-language policy is ‘compulsory Hindi’, says Tamil Nadu CM; criticism online
- 415 universities offer SWAYAM, NPTEL online courses, but UGC’s credit transfer scheme finds few takers
- CBSE changing Class 9, 10 syllabus from 2026-27; 3rd language compulsory, 2 levels of maths, science
- MBBS Abroad: NMC warns students against 3 Uzbekistan medical colleges, TSMU offshore campus
- CBSE AI Curriculum for Classes 3-8: What’s in the syllabus, how will it be taught, will there be exams?
- Pondicherry University advances exams, cancels internals, makes Saturdays working citing LPG shortage