Indore Administration Declares School Closure For Today Due To Heavy Rainfall – News18

As predicted by Indian Meteorological Department, Madhya Pradesh will continue to have moderate to heavy rainfall till the end of this week. Heavy pounding continued in the capital city of MP, Indore on the second consecutive day resulting in waterlogging. Owing to such circumstances, the district administration of Indore has closed the schools in the city for today. Sharing the update on microblogging site, “(Translated in English) In view of continuous rain since night in Indore, Collector Dr. Ilaiah Raja T has declared holiday on Friday, July 21 in all schools. School operators have been instructed to take precautions regarding the safety of students.”

However this tweet was posted at 7:47 AM which has left people putting questions on the administration. A lady tweeted “What the use of this message at 8:00 am when rain started by 3:00 am and was heavy too. Maximum school buses comes before 6:45 am and for that we have to reach to bus stop and prepare accordingly. Can’t we get this kind of messages little early.”

Many parents have took to Twitter and expressed anger over late communication by the authority as their wards have already left for schools. Another Twitterati has also shared his anger towards the Indore administration.

It is intriguing that despite the sky stayed gloomy all day Thursday, significant showers did fall in Indore in the morning. Till 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, the weather station at the airport in Indore noted 27.3 mm of precipitation. In the previous 24 hours, 42.4 mm of rain fell on the city. In Indore city, 396.1 mm of precipitation have been measured thus far. On the other side, between 8.30 am and 6.30 pm, Mandla recorded 37 mm of rain, Ujjain 18, Raisen 16, Jabalpur 7, Bhopal 3, and Indore 0.1 mm.