# Ahmedabad schools allowed voluntary Sunday classes after rain closures 2026-08-06T07:20:43+00:00 | India | Indian Opinion Desk Ahmedabad's District Education Officer has issued an advisory permitting schools to hold classes on Sundays, on a voluntary basis, to make up teaching time lost when heavy rain forced temporary closures across parts of Gujarat, Times of India reported. The advisory applies to institutions from the pre-primary through higher secondary level, spanning government, grant-in-aid, private unaided and board-affiliated schools in Ahmedabad city. Attendance at any Sunday session is optional rather than compulsory, and it is left to individual schools to decide whether to hold one, weighing their own academic schedule, teacher availability, local weather and student safety. Where a school does go ahead, the extra time can be used to finish pending syllabus, conduct revision, take student questions or run assessments and tests. Schools that hold sessions have been asked to inform parents and students beforehand and to do so only when they judge it necessary and feasible. ## Indian Opinion Analysis This is a routine administrative response to lost classroom time rather than a contested decision, and nothing here makes the Sunday sessions compulsory for any student. The advisory leaves the choice to individual schools, so there is no count of how many institutions in Ahmedabad actually opted to hold sessions, how many teaching days were recovered, or how the extra work was managed for teachers. Those figures are absent from the reporting. Whether the education department later discloses how many schools took up the option, and how much lost teaching time was actually recovered, is the concrete number still to be confirmed. ## Coverage - timesofindia.indiatimes.com Tags: Ahmedabad, Gujarat Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/ahmedabad-schools-may-hold-voluntary-sunday-classes-after-rain-related-losses/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/ahmedabad-schools-may-hold-voluntary-sunday-classes-after-rain-related-losses/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.