Dense foggy chilling cold conditions prevailed across the state, which resulted in shutting of schools in some districts, changing school timings; intense cold conditions have prevailed with the advent of new year.
Air India's Delhi and Mumbai flights coming to Bhopal had to be diverted to Nagpur on Monday due to bad weather. Indigo's Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad flights got delayed. The Indigo flight to Bangalore had to be cancelled.
Several trains were delayed to very low visibility. Shivpuri Collector has ordered closure of all government and private schools from January 4 to January 7. School timings have been changed in many districts including Bhopal.
The time for the half-yearly examinations of the MP Board has also been changed. The School Education Department has changed the time of examinations from 9th to 12th class. In the first shift, the exam was earlier to be held from 8 am, but it has been extended to 9 am. In the second shift, the time of the exam to be held at 11.15 am has been increased to 1 pm.
For the third consecutive day in Madhya Pradesh, there was dense fog in many districts including Bhopal on Tuesday. Except Sidhi, Khandwa, Khargone, Betul, Narmadapuram, Rewa, Satna, the minimum temperature remained below 10 degrees in the rest of the 45 districts of the state.
Bhopal Collector Avinash Lavania has issued orders to change the timings of the capital's schools. All government, private schools and Anganwadis will start from 9.30 am. The schools which have two shifts will start from 9 am.
Earlier, in-charge minister Bhupendra Singh had instructed the collector to change the school timings. Met said that similar weather will prevail for the next two days. After this, there will be a slight increase in the minimum temperature, but there will not be much increase in the temperature.