Had the Government not reduced the timing for reporting at both the schools and as well as the offices by half an hour and fixed it at 11.A.M as usual, the people won’t have any reason to demand advancing of winter vacation by 10-15 days this year.
Though change in weather is both resistible and as well as irresistible but with dense fog unprecedentedly reducing the visibility in the morning and evening hours amid drop in temperatures below freezing points the change in the timing for winter vacations for schools and as well as change in office timings is now almost over due. While Government in Jammu & Kashmir was always changing the timing for both the schools and as well as the offices to fix the reporting time for both the students and as well as the employees in the morning at 11.00 A.M from Ist November onwards till March end, the Government this year though changed the timing of schools and offices also but unfortunately reduced it by half an hour by fixing the reporting time for them at 10. 30 A.M. Had the Government not reduced the timing for reporting at both the schools and as well as the offices by half an hour and fixed it at 11.A.M as usual, the people won’t have any reason to demand advancing of winter vacation by 10-15 days this year. Since reporting time at private schools in Srinagar city and majority of the towns is still fixed at 9.00 A.M, the difficulties children face in reaching their schools in the bone chilling cold in morning amid fog and intense cold are quite evident and henceforth the demand for advancing winter vacations is quite genuine and deserves immediate attention and intervention of the top brass of the school education department.
“While the fog in the morning hours has very recently forced even the Delhi Government to shut schools for the purposes of the health safety of the children, the Government in Jammu & Kashmir also would find a compulsion in advancing winter vacations this year if fog continues for some more days in Kashmir valley. With fog intensifying day after day and freezing temperatures likely to intensify cold wave in Kashmir from now onwards till mid February the Jammu & Kashmir Government obviously is left with no other choice but to advance winter vacations for schools in Kashmir Valley”.
Interestingly reduced visibility due to fog and mercury dropping to below freezing points are not the only two genuine reasons for intensifying public demand for advancing of winter vacations but the change in life style of children particularly their clothing and food habits developing in them immediately after the commencement of winter are the other two genuine reasons for the people to demand advancing of winter vacations this year. While the fog in the morning hours has very recently forced even the Delhi Government to shut schools for the purposes of the health safety of the children, the Government in Jammu & Kashmir also would find a compulsion in advancing winter vacations this year if fog continues for some more days in Kashmir valley. With fog intensifying day after day and freezing temperatures likely to intensify cold wave in Kashmir from now onwards till mid February the Jammu & Kashmir Government obviously is left with no other choice but to advance winter vacations for schools in Kashmir Valley.
