As temperature dipped in the city, all the three Municipal Corporations have decided to close all schools under its jurisdiction till January 19 keeping in view the extreme cold weather in Capital city.
The Corporations have taken decision to protect the school going kids from the extreme cold conditions as their health is of paramount importance for us, said a senior Corporation official.
Earlier the Government had already decided to extend winter vacations of children studying up till class V in Delhi Government schools from January 16 to January 19.
The announcement was made on the coldest day of the season when the minimum temperature dropped to 3.4 degrees Celsius at Safdarjung, the official Meteorological observatory in Delhi. The minimum was four degrees below normal, and the lowest minimum temperature recorded in January in the past three years. The maximum was recorded as 18.2 degrees Celsius, two degrees below normal.