Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Aug 14: The state department of education has decided to reschedule the mid-term and summer holidays of high schools and primary schools for this year. This has been done, as the department feels that conducting the semester examinations after the mid-term holiday period as planned earlier, would not be the right step.

The department had earlier scheduled the mid-term holidays from September 17 to October 1 and had decided to hold the first semester examination from October 26 to 31. Now, the mid-term holiday has been changed to October 3 to 19. The summer holidays will be from April 11 to May 28.

The deputy director of public instruction said, that the commissioner of the department of education has passed an order, modifying the holiday period, as above. With the modified holidays however, the children would be deprived of celebrations and frolic during the Navaratri festival, that falls in the third week of September, as they will be busy reading for the first semester examination that has to be concluded before the mid-term holidays begin.