Telangana announces Dasara holidays for schools, junior colleges

School students and teachers in the State can break for Dasara vacation commencing September 21. The junior colleges, however, will have their holidays a week later from September 28.

Schools have been granted a 13-day Dasara holiday till October 3 and they will reopen on October 4. If students skip school on October 4, which is a Saturday, they can extend their vacation by two days and rejoin the classwork on Monday October 6.

The junior colleges have got an eight-day holiday, including Sundays, till October 5, with



reopening scheduled for October 6. Students will have half-yearly examinations from November 10 to 15.

Prior to vacation, the schools have to conclude their formative assessment (FA) – 2 examinations. After resuming classwork, students have to take summative assessment (SA) – 1 examinations from October 24 to 31.

After evaluation of the answer scripts, SA 1 results will be declared by November 6. Following completion of SA 1, except for teaching there will be no examination in the month of November.