Heat wave: Patna DM restricts all academic activities till June 18 up to Class 12, including coaching

The Patna district administration in Bihar has restricted all academic activities from June 12 to June 18 up to Class 12, due to extreme heat wave in Bihar. The District Magistrate has issued a notice to shut all academic institutions till June 18.

In a letter, Patna District Magistrate Chandra Shekher Singh said that hot, humid temperatures with strong heat wave could prove risky for children. In response, under the CrPC of section 144, the administration has also prohibited all academic activities of private, government schools till class 8th, Anganwadi, Pre-school.

However, the summer vacation is currently underway, and the majority of the schools are already closed. Only a few coaching centres, private institutions are open in Patna.


The temperature of Patna reached above 44 degree Celsius in the last few days and the met department has predicted the atmospheric temperature to remain the same in the next one week.

Sources have said that the monsoon season may arrive in Bihar by June 20.

The maximum temperature of Patna on Monday is expected to reach 42 degrees Celsius and the minimum will settle at 31 degrees.

Neighbouring state Jharkhand has also announced shutting down of all schools for three days from June 12 in the wake of heat wave conditions prevailing in the state.

An order issued by the secretary of school education and literacy department K Ravi Kumar, said that keeping in view the extreme heat and heat wave conditions in the state, all categories of government, non-government aided/ non-aided (including minority) and all private schools operating in the state will remain closed from June 12 to June 14.

(Inputs from PTI and IANS)