Indore schools shut till January 9 for nursery to class 8

INDORE: With the minimum temperature in Indore dropping to 8.4 degrees Celsius, and the cold snap showing no signs of abating any time soon, the Indore administration has ordered schools to be shut from nursery to class 8 till January 9.The state is in the grip of a cold wave and the Indore day temperature on Thursday plunged to 19.2 degrees, 6 degrees below normal, and the minimum also dipped after being in the nippy nines for several days.Collector Dr Ilayaraja T ordered all government and private schools to suspend classes till middle school. Teachers and school staff will have to be present on campus, though.Due to the dip in temperatures, most schools recorded very low attendance on Thursday, especially in the pre-primary and primary classes.The timings for the ongoing half yearly exams for higher classes of the state board were changed by Indore's school education department on Thursday. Indore may have dense fog: Met For classes 9 and 11, exams will begin at 9am and get over at noon, and class 10 and 12 exams will start at 1pm and get over at 4pm, Indore district education officer Manglesh Vyas told TOI. Ujjain collector Asheesh Singh has ordered classes from nursery till 8 shut till January 7. Schools in Dewas district will remain open but the timings have been changed.Exam timings will not change, the Dewas collector ordered.Naogaon was the coldest in state at 2.8 degree Celsius. Naogaon, Indore, Ujjain, Khajuraho, Dhar and Rewa had a 'cold day' or 'severe cold day' in Met terms. There is a warning of moderate to dense fog in Indore, Neemuch, Khandwa, Jhabua, Dhar, Ratlam and Burhanpur districts, along with Bhopal, Rewa, Sagar, Gwalior, Chambal and Narmadapuram divisions.A cold-wave warning has been issued for Chhatarpur, Gwalior and Datia, and Khandwa, Khargone, Burhanpur, Betul and Harda districts may get light rain.