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Maharashtra orders school deep-cleaning drive before reopening
The Story in Brief
The Maharashtra government has directed all schools across the state to carry out a deep-cleaning drive before reopening, asking them to sanitise classrooms, toilets, libraries and playgrounds. The order, issued by the School Education Department, applies to government, aided, private and unaided schools, and follows the state education department's directive on 19 October for schools to reopen on 2 November.
Indian Opinion Analysis
The cleaning order turns a simple reopening notice into a health-safety instruction, which suggests the state is treating the return to classrooms as a public health exercise rather than a purely administrative one. Schools now carry the burden of proving they are safe, while parents have no stated inspection or verification mechanism to check compliance. The order gives no timeline for completing the work, so the burden falls on headmasters to decide how quickly to act before the reopening date. The concrete watch item is the reopening itself: whether schools can show readiness on 2 November when classes resume.
Source: hindustantimes.com
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