CT Online Desk:
The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) today said the administration can keep the secondary schools shut if the maximum temperature in any district falls below 17 degrees Celsius. The DSHE gave the instruction in a circular today. The circular said,Severe cold wraves asre currently sweeping over different districts of the country. The normal educational activities of the students are being disrupted due to the weather.
"In this regard, the regional deputy directors, in consultation with the district education officers, may keep the secondary level educational institutions closed if the district witnesses maximum temperature below 17 degrees Celsius [as per weather forecast of the concerned meteorological office]."Those institutions will be shut until the maximum temperature rises to 17 degrees Celsius or above, the circular said.
