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Rain, flooding lead to low turnout in Mumbai schools
Mumbai: Widespread flooding caused by heavy rains has severely disrupted transport and civic services across Mumbai, resulting in significantly low attendance in schools across the city on Wednesdaya.
Most institutions reported student turnout between 30 to 50%, while teacher attendance was also impacted, with many unable to commute from distant places due to waterlogged roads and unreliable public transport.
Umakant Jagtap, principal of N D Patil School in Kandivili, said the school had advised parents to assess local conditions before deciding whether to send their children. "Student attendance hovered between 30 to 50% for our morning and evening batches," he said.
He also highlighted concerns about academic scheduling ahead of the upcoming Ganesh festival. "We usually aim to finish our first unit tests before the festive break, but with nearly three instructional days lost, we now have to find ways to make up for this time."
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Some schools saw near-total shutdowns. At IES New English School in Bandra, very few students and no teachers were able to attend. "I live in Virar and could not make it to school myself, as I was uncertain if the trains would run," said the principal, Shilpa Ashtamkar.
She adds "many of our students come from chawls and humble tenements nearby and have been the worst affected by the flooding."
Madhav Suryavanshi, a teacher at the Khar Education Society School, reported similar challenges. "We had only 50 percent attendance in the morning batch, but as the showers let up by afternoon, around 70 percent of students showed up."
Almost every neighbouring municipal corporation and district administration declared a holiday for Aug 20, the BMC held out possibly trying to avoid declaring a needless holiday, but the rains of the past three days deterred parents from sending their wards to school resulting in a loss of an instructional day for most Ganesh holidays approaching, schools are now under added pressure to complete the syllabus and conduct pending unit tests within a compressed timeline.
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