New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) on Wednesday slammed the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar authorities for shortening the holidays for Durga Puja, Diwali, and Chhath Puja in its new vacation calendar for state-run faculties. Releasing a video assertion on his official X account, BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi alleged that the choice to curtail the vacations was ‘in opposition to the curiosity of Hindus’.
“The Schooling Division goes by a state of chaos. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ought to instantly withdraw the anti-Hindu order,” Sushil Kumar Modi mentioned.
हिंदुओं के पर्व, त्योहार पर स्कूलों में छुट्टियों में कटौती सम्बन्धी हिन्दू विरोधी सर्कुलर बिहार सरकार वापस ले – सुशील मोदी pic.twitter.com/TRjuafzpZ7
— Sushil Kumar Modi (@SushilModi) August 30, 2023
The RJD, which is part of the Mahagathbandhan, nonetheless, mentioned there was nothing unsuitable with the order.
“The choice to cut back the vacations was taken with an goal to extend the variety of working days in authorities faculties. There’s nothing unsuitable with it. The BJP, which is in opposition to imparting high quality training to high school college students, is unnecessarily attempting to offer it a political color,” RJD spokesperson Mrityunjay Tiwary advised the information company PTI.
Bihar govt reduces holidays for Diwali, Chhath, Durga Puja in new calendar for faculties
The Schooling Division of the Bihar authorities has printed a brand new vacation calendar for state-run faculties, wherein it has shortened the holidays for Durga Puja, Diwali and Chhath Puja, to extend the variety of working days as stipulated underneath the Proper to Schooling Act.
The variety of festive holidays was slashed to 11 from 23 between September and December, in keeping with the calendar issued in a notification on Tuesday.
The federal government additionally sought to convey uniformity throughout the state and requested the district training officers (DEOs) to announce extra holidays with permission from the Schooling Division, officers mentioned.
Raksha Bandhan on August 31 has already been declared a ‘restricted’ or optionally available vacation, they mentioned.
The choice to cut back the variety of holidays is a part of the slew of reforms that the federal government has undertaken to enhance the usual of training within the state, they added.
The Durga Puja holidays have been shortened to a few days from the sooner six, and solely one-day vacation every will probably be given for Diwali and Chitragupta Puja, and two days for Chhath Puja. Earlier, faculties had a nine-day trip from Diwali to Chhath Puja, in keeping with the notification.
“The Proper To Schooling Act 2009 stipulates that courses I to V (major) ought to have 200 working days and courses VI to VIII (higher major/center) 220 working days per tutorial yr. However the tutorial actions within the faculties get affected as a result of elections, political actions, festivals, points associated to legislation and order, recruitment examinations, catastrophe administration actions, and so forth.,” it mentioned.
“Moreover, there isn’t a uniformity in holidays throughout the state. Holding the above points, together with uniformity in holidays, in thoughts, the division has now determined to revise the checklist of holidays for the remaining tutorial days in major and center faculties within the state,” it added.
