Bihar school holiday 2024 calendar out, BSEB clarifies different lists for Urdu & general schools

BSEB Holiday Calendar 2024: Urdu primary, middle and higher secondary schools including maktabs will observe a weekly holiday on Friday. These schools will however remain open on Sundays.

Bihar board announces school holiday calendar for the 2024 academic session

Bihar schools will get 30 days of summer break in the 2024 academic year (Express image/ file)

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The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) has announced the school holiday calendar for the 2024 session. The summer vacation in Bihar schools will be for 30 days unlike 20 days last year from April 15, 2024 to May 15, 2024. All school heads, teachers and other non-teaching staff will be required to be present in schools during the vacation.

After several rumours doing the rounds regarding the school holidays and Bihar not celebrating the anniversaries of great men, the BSEB issued a clarification saying that there will be no changes in the number of holidays this year and schools have always remained open and celebrated the birth anniversaries of great men.

Clarifying their calendar further of not celebrating anniversaries of great men, the board said that the other anniversaries fall during the summer vacations, hence they have not been mentioned separately.

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While announcing the school holidays, the board also said that the holiday calendar has been structured in such a way that the 220 teaching days under the Right to Education (RTE) Act are met.

It also added that all government, state and minority-aided Urdu schools covering primary, secondary and higher secondary levels will have to follow the same calendar. And Urdu primary, middle and higher secondary schools including maktabs will observe a weekly holiday on Friday. These schools will however remain open on Sundays.

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