Students & teachers will get to enjoy 129 off days this year in Maharastra govt school | Pune News
PUNE: The school education department has announced the holiday schedule for the 2025-26 session for govt schools in Maharashtra with 129 off days for students and teachers. Schools reopen for the new academic year on June 16 in the rest of the state and on June 23 in Vidarbha. According to this new schedule, there will be 236 days of school sessions, with the remaining allocated for various holidays. The education department finalised this timetable after discussions with teachers’ associations. Last academic year, there was one less holiday compared to this year. The new session includes an extra Sunday. Throughout the year, there will be 53 Sundays which will be non-working, a govt notification stated.In February , education commissioner Sachindra Pratap Singh had said that schools would reopen on June 16 to end confusions triggered by the State Curriculum Framework for School Education (SCF-SE) that had recommended aligning Maharashtra’s academic calendar with the CBSE schedule, shifting the school academic year from June-April to April-March. Education minister Pankaj Bhoyar had said that govt was considering reopening schools from April 1 for the next academic year. But, most teachers’ unions opposed the move on the ground that adopting CBSE calendar without considering Maharashtra’s social, cultural and geographical factors would be impractical.
