Bhubaneswar: District Collectors in several Odisha districts on Thursday announced a holiday for all schools and Anganwadi centers (AWCs) in their respective areas for the second consecutive day today in view of incessant rains and water-logging.
District Collectors of Angul, Sundargarh, Keonjhar, Bhadrak, Sambalpur, Boudh, and a few others have issued notifications regarding the closure of schools in their areas. On Wednesday, the Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) issued a notification allowing the District Collectors to announce school closures in their areas if they thought it to be necessary.
All government and private schools and Anganwadi centers in 12 of the 30 districts of the states were closed due to the heavy rainfall.
Meanwhile, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) today predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall in western and coastal Odisha in the next 24 hours.
