Lakshadweep administration ends system of holidays on Fridays for schools in islands

The Lakshadweep Education Department has brought out a new calendar declaring Fridays working days and all Sundays holidays for schools in the islands.

Fridays will no longer be weekly holidays for school students in Muslim-dominated Lakshadweep.

The Lakshadweep Education Department has brought out a new calendar declaring Fridays working days and all Sundays holidays for schools in the islands, ending the decades-old privilege of students for having Fridays as holidays in the islands on religious grounds.