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| No School on Christmas, Clarifies Smriti Irani Amid Anger Over Government Circular
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| INDIA
, 15-December-2014
8:37:59 AM |
| Education minister Smriti Irani has denied that schools will be open on Christmas Day, but a circular sent out by the government's Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti has asked schools it runs to hold activities to observe 'good governance day' on December 25.
The notice says, "You are requested to ensure that Good Governance day is celebrated in all JNVs under your region. A consolidated report specifying activities carried out in all JNVs is to be submitted by email along with photographs/ video recordings to this office on 25th December 2014." The Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti runs 595 residential schools all over the country.
"Deliberate mischief by ur reporter on the front page today. All schools closed for XMas, essay competition only online," the minister tweeted this morning, denying a report in a leading newspaper this morning that said the union human resource development ministry's plans to
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celebrate the birthday of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee as 'Good Governance Day' on December 25 could include getting students to participate in the essay competition and other activities.
The ministry later clarified that the celebrations were limited only to Navodaya schools which did not have a winter break. Citing that they are residential schools, the ministry added that students who stayed back "will have the opportunity to participate if they so wish in the essay completion" which it reiterated was being held "online".
"The report is factually false," Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in Parliament after Opposition parties attacked the government.
The Left's Sitaram Yechury said, "On Gandhi Jayanti, you have a programme of Swacch Bharat; on Christmas, you want a programme for good governance; then,
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