UP Rains: Schools Shut in Several Districts Today Due to Heavy Rains – News18

Schools in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow will remain closed today due to heavy rain and lightning. Schools in Barabanki and Lakhimpur Kheri have been directed to remain shut. In Lakhimpur Kheri, heavy downpours lashed all eight tehsil areas following which District Magistrate Mahendra Bahadur Singh ordered closure of all the schools from pre-primary to class 12.

Lucknow District Magistrate Surya Pal Gangwar had also ordered the closure of schools. An advisory was issued for the people not to venture out unnecessarily in view of the possibility of severe lightning. Schools in Lucknow were also closed on September 11.

Amid several urban and rural areas witnessing waterlogging on the main routes and approach roads due to incessant rains since Sunday night, the Nipun Assessment Test (NAT) scheduled to be held on Monday and Tuesday among all government-run primary and upper primary schools had to be postponed, Lakhimpur Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA) Pravin Tiwari said.

“The NAT examination in all basic schools would remain suspended on September 11,” the BSA said In Unnao, lightning struck at many places leaving 140 sheep dead in Hasanganj tehsil, SDM Hasanganj Naveen Chandra said.

As many as 19 people were killed in the past 24 hours due to heavy rain in Uttar Pradesh. Cases of roof collapse, drowning, and deaths due to lightning were reported in parts of the state. Some localities in Lucknow faced waterlogging while rail tracks were flooded in Barabanki. Four deaths were reported from Hardoi, three from Barabanki, two each from Pratapgarh and Kannauj, and one each from Amethi, Deoria, Jalaun, Kanpur, Unnao, Sambhal, Rampur and Muzaffarnagar districts, it said.

There has been over 40 mm of rain in the last 24 hours in 22 districts including Moradabad, Sambhal, Kannauj, Rampur, Hathras, Barabanki, Kasganj, Bijnor, Amroha, Bahraich, Lucknow, Badaun, Mainpuri, Hardoi, Firozabad, Bareilly, Shahjahanpur, Kanpur, Sitapur Farrukhabad, Lakhimpur Kheri and Fatehpur.

According to the MET department forecast, heavy rains are likely in the eastern region till September 14 while light rains will continue till September 17, the official of the relief commissioner office said. The western region of the state is also likely to get rain and showers till September 17, though there is an alert for lightning over the state till September 15.

— with PTI inputs