Big relief for school students! Schools and colleges closed for a week, order issued

due to kanwar yatra Schools and colleges in Haridwar district will remain closed for a week. Haridwar District Magistrate Dheeraj Singh gave this information on Tuesday. He said that all schools, Anganwadi centers and colleges coming in the Kanwar Yatra route will remain closed from July 27 to August 2.

The DM said that this year a large number of devotees are expected to come for the Kanwar Yatra. A large number of Shiva devotees come to Haridwar via various vehicles through the main routes to collect Gangajal. There is a possibility of such crowd on all Kanwar routes, so this decision has been taken.

In fact, lakhs of Kanwar pilgrims from all over western Uttar Pradesh come to Haridwar to collect Gangajal. There is a fair of Kanwar pilgrims on the roads of all districts including Saharanpur, Ghaziabad, Hapur, Meerut, Baghpat, Muzaffarnagar. In view of the Kanwar fair, route diversion has also been done on all roads including Delhi Meerut Expressway, Meerut Highway.