Classes to resume today

Published May 5, 2024 · Updated May 4, 2024

Braving the sweltering summer, an elderly man paddles his heavily-loaded flat-bed tricycle at Abul Hasnat Road in the capital on Saturday.

UNB :
All educational institutions which remained closed for countrywide heat wave will reopen today (Sunday). The Ministry of Education issued a notice to this effect on Saturday.

“Classes of all educational institutions will resume from Sunday,” reads the notice signed by the ministry’s public relations officer MA Khayer.

Schools and colleges were scheduled to reopen on April 21 after the end of Eid holidays but the closure was extended till April 27 due to sweltering heat across the country caused by heat waves.

Classes resumed on April 28 although there was no remarkable change in the heat wave condition, worrying the guardians, especially those of primary level students.

The authorities extended the closure of primary and secondary level educational intuitions till May 2 following a High Court order for keeping those shut.

The HC passed the suo moto order following reports of death and sickness of people including teachers and students after the reopening of the educational institutions.