To avoid children from suffering from growing mercury, the Karnataka School Education department is expected to extend the summer vaction for about 10-days.

To cover the holiday gaps due to COVID-19 in the previous academic, state has reduced the educational year end summer vacation by 14-days from regular May 29 to May 16.

However, as the mercury was in high rise day after day in the state, especially in northern range, SL Bojegowda the member of Legislative Council has written a letter to CM Basavaraj Bommai and appealed to extend the term of the vacation. “The children, mainly from north Karnataka would be effected like sunstroke due to growing heat for which the beginning of the fresh academic could start from absent to schools, to avoid this it was better to expand the summer vacation,” he super stated in the letter.