New Delhi: The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) has started early summer vacation for its schools due to the surge in COVID-19 cases. The schools were shut down on May 3 and will reopen on June 20. The revised 49-days long summer vacation schedule is being only followed by the schools in warmer regions and not in colder regions.
“In view of the rising COVID-19 cases the duration of the summer vacation has been changed for all the schools situated in the warmer regions,” said a KVS notification.
Summer vacation has been announced for Kendriya Vidyalayas in Delhi, Agra, Gurugram, Jaipur, Jammu, Lucknow, Patna, Guwahati, Dehradun, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Ranchi, Silchar, Tinsukia, Varanasi, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Ernakulam, Hyderabad, Jabalpur, Mumbai, Raipur, Bhubaneswar and Bhopal.
The Kendriya Vidyalayas situated in the colder regions such as Leh, Kargil, Nubra (Ladakh), Tawang, Dalhousie and Kathmandu in Nepal will continue to have the same schedule for summer and winter breaks.
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