{"id":315121,"date":"2019-09-19T04:38:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T04:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315121"},"modified":"2019-09-19T04:38:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T04:38:37","slug":"schools-junior-colleges-closed-today-as-mumbai-gears-up-for-heavy-rainfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/schools-junior-colleges-closed-today-as-mumbai-gears-up-for-heavy-rainfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools, Junior Colleges closed today as Mumbai gears up for heavy rainfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299638 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Mumbai-rainss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"685\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Mumbai-rainss.jpg 685w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Mumbai-rainss-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Mumbai-rainss-514x420.jpg 514w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/>All schools and junior colleges were closed on Thursday in Mumbai, Thane and the Konkan region after the IMD forecast heavy rainfall for the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maharashtra Minister of School Education Ashish Shelar had announced that all schools and junior colleges in Thane, Konkan and Mumbai region will remain closed as the weather department forecast a red alert in these regions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn view of heavy rainfall forecasts. As a precautionary measure, holiday is declared for all schools &amp; junior colleges in Mumbai, Thane, Konkan region for today 19 Sep 2019. District collectors in other parts of Maharashtra to decide, based on local conditions,\u201d Ashish Shelar said in a tweet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mumbai&#8217;s suburbs received heavy rain on Wednesday night. Intense spell occurred in suburbs. Versova recorded 50 mm rain within 3 hours,\u00a0KS Hosalikar, Deputy Director General of Meteorology, IMD, Mumbai said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cRealised rainfall over Mumbai and around in last 24 hrs, indicate heavy falls at few places in suburbs, Thane and NM,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All schools and junior colleges were closed on Thursday in Mumbai, Thane and the Konkan region after the IMD forecast heavy rainfall for the city. Maharashtra Minister of School Education Ashish Shelar had announced that all schools and junior colleges in Thane, Konkan and Mumbai region will remain closed as the weather department forecast a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315122,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315121\/revisions\/315122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}