# Himachal, Odisha shut schools, Punjab, Delhi-NCR open 2026-08-17T02:55:02+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu announced that all government schools in the state will be closed on August 17 as a compensatory holiday for Independence Day. The Directorate of School Education had ordered schools to remain open on August 15. Private schools can decide whether to observe a holiday, according to the CM. Odisha's Jajpur district administration has closed all schools and Anganwadi centres on August 17 due to heavy rainfall warnings from the India Meteorological Department. Times Now reports that Mayurbhanj, Kendujhar and Balasore districts had earlier shut all educational institutes for the same reason. Schools and colleges in Jalandhar, Punjab, are also closed on August 17 as compensatory leave. Schools in Delhi-NCR remain open, with no holiday announced. ## Coverage - timesnownews.com This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Delhi NCR, Himachal Pradesh, Jajpur, Odisha, Punjab, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/himachal-odisha-shut-schools-punjab-delhi-ncr-open/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/himachal-odisha-shut-schools-punjab-delhi-ncr-open/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/