{"id":46884,"date":"2024-05-09T12:45:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T12:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/09\/punjab-haryana-schools-to-remain-closed-on-may-10-on-occasion-of-parshuram-jayanti\/"},"modified":"2024-05-09T12:45:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T12:45:59","slug":"punjab-haryana-schools-to-remain-closed-on-may-10-on-occasion-of-parshuram-jayanti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/09\/punjab-haryana-schools-to-remain-closed-on-may-10-on-occasion-of-parshuram-jayanti\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab, Haryana schools to remain closed on May 10 on occasion of Parshuram Jayanti"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-109982946,imgsize-44066.cms?fit=1280,720&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Punjab, Haryana schools to remain closed on May 10 on occasion of Parshuram Jayanti\" title=\"Punjab, Haryana schools to remain closed on May 10 on occasion of Parshuram Jayanti\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"9\"><a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schools<\/a> in <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/haryana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haryana<\/a> will be closed on Friday, May 10, in observance of <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/parshuram-jayanti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parshuram Jayanti<\/a>, as per media reports. Initially designated solely for <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/government-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">government schools<\/a>, this <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/holiday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">holiday<\/a> now extends to both <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">government<\/a> and <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/private-institutions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">private institutions<\/a> across the state, including areas such as <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/faridabad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faridabad<\/a>, <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/gurgaon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gurgaon<\/a>, and Dayalbagh.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=107107653potime:2-->Similarly, in Punjab, schools, <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/colleges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">colleges<\/a>, and other educational institutions will also remain closed on May 10, coinciding with a holiday for government offices. Prior to this, <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/punjab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Punjab<\/a> observed a holiday on May 1 for Labour Day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Does Parshuram Jayanti mark a public holiday?<\/strong><br \/>Parshuram Jayanti, the <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/birth-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">birth anniversary<\/a> of Lord Parshuram, holds significance in various states including Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, and Gujarat. Rajasthan has declared May 10 as a public holiday to honour this occasion. In 2022, Haryana&#8217;s Chief Minister, Manohar Lal Khattar, designated <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/lord-parshuram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lord Parshuram<\/a> Jayanti as a gazetted holiday in the state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the significance of Parshuram Jayanti celebration?<\/strong><br \/>Parshuram Jayanti marks the birth anniversary of the sixth incarnation of Lord <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/vishnu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vishnu<\/a>. Also known as <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/akshay-tritiya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Akshay Tritiya<\/a>, it is believed that Lord Parshuram was born during the first quarter of the day and night of Vaishakh Shukla Tritiya. Hindus consider this day auspicious for initiating new ventures or business endeavors. According to the Hindu calendar, Lord Parshuram&#8217;s birthday falls in the Vaisakh month on the &#8216;tritiya&#8217; (third day) of &#8216;shukla paksha&#8217;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/punjab-haryana-schools-to-remain-closed-on-may-10-on-occasion-of-parshuram-jayanti\/articleshow\/109982946.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools in Haryana will be closed on Friday, May 10, in observance of Parshuram Jayanti, as per media reports. Initially designated solely for government schools, this holiday now extends to both government and private institutions across the state, including areas such as Faridabad, Gurgaon, and Dayalbagh. Similarly, in Punjab, schools, colleges, and other educational institutions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-109982946,imgsize-44066.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[42919,47649,1457,44919,47654,3954,47655,40768,10576,47646,47653,1117,31141,47648,47656,47657,47647,47652,4460,47651,3786,10387,47650],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46886,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46884\/revisions\/46886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}