Schools, colleges closed across Kerala for Onam, exams postponed

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Schools, colleges closed across Kerala for Onam, exams postponed
Schools, colleges closed across Kerala for Onam, exams postponed

Kerala : The Kerala Education Department on Thursday declared that schools, anganwadis and professional colleges across the state will remain close for Onam festival.

The educational institutions will be closed on Friday (August 17), reopen on August 29 as district administrations of Kozhikode, Alappuzha, Palakkad, Kottayam, Kollam and Malappuram have officially announced the holiday.

The Onam examination scheduled for August 31 has also been postponed by the department. Moreover, the holiday is applicable to all the schools in the district that are acting as relief camps.

Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) has postponed the exams scheduled for Friday and Saturday (August 17 and August 18). The Onam holidays were scheduled to begin on August 20. However, Calicut University, which has postponed all the exams till August 31, is set to reopen on August 28. All the theory exams scheduled for August 17 (Friday) were postponed by the Kerala University of Health Sciences and the revised dates will be announced later. The university, however, made no changes to the timetable prepared for the practical examinations.

Students are advised to contact their educational institutes for new dates of the examination.