Bowing to pressure from teachers’ organisations, the General Education department has gone back on the decision to begin the summer vacations on April 6.
At a meeting of the Quality Improvement Programme (QIP) monitoring committee convened by Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty here on Wednesday, it was decided that the number of working days in the academic year would be capped at 205, instead of 210 as announced. Schools would close on the last working day in March as before and the days from April 1 to 5 would remain part of the summer vacation.
