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Schools closed in Patiala following heavy rain

PATIALA: Owing to heavy and incessant rain for the psst three days, all schools in the district have been closed down for Monday. The district administration took the decision of shutting down the schools after the Punjab government issued a flood alert.



Karam Prakash

Tribune News Service

Patiala, Septemeber 24

Owing to heavy and incessant rain for the psst three days, all schools in the district have been closed for Monday.

The district administration took the decision of shutting down the schools after the Punjab government issued a flood alert.

The Additional Deputy Commissioner issued an official communique requesting the District Education Officer to immediately close down schools as a preventive measure.

While talking to The Tribune, ADC (General) Shaukat Ahmed Pare, said, “As per the MET department, the situation is expected to improve by the evening; therefore, the communique of closing down the schools is only for Mnoday.”

He said they would have a meeting with the MET department in the evening, and if the situation didn’t improve they would close schools on Tuesday.

Ahmed said, “We are closely monitoring the situation, and our teams are on standby.”

Government school teachers said the administration should have declared holiday in the first place as the MET had issued a warning of heavy rain. The administration was late in declaring the holiday as the schools had already opened, they said.

Meanwhile, The Met department said Patiala had experienced 135.6 mm rain in the past 24 hours.

The Met department said the intensity of the rain would decline by the evening, however, it the rain would continue until midnight.

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