{"id":105856,"date":"2026-03-31T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=105856"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:32:09","slug":"punjab-govt-announces-new-school-timings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/punjab-govt-announces-new-school-timings\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab govt announces new school timings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab Education Department has issued an official notification that establishes new school operating hours, which will affect all public and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/all-private-schools-colleges-in-islamabad-to-reopen-from-april-1\/\">private schools<\/a> throughout the province from April 1 to April 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The new schedule will establish regular school operations, which will begin at 8:45 AM and end at 1:30 PM until the department issues its next official announcement, which will specify the spring session schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial government established the new timing schedule to support educational institutions, which will resume classes on April 1 through their five-day in-person schedule after the schools ended operations because of economic and energy-related disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab Education Minister Rana Sikandar Hayat declared that all schools in the province will reopen on April 1 to provide five-day weekly classes to students.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial government has denied the hybrid system proposal, which would have restricted class attendance to three or four days while confirming that academic activities will proceed according to a five-day schedule.<\/p>\n<p>All students, parents, and school staff members must observe the revised schedule while they wait for additional instructions from the education authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab Education Department has issued an official notification that establishes new school operating hours, which will affect all public and private schools throughout the province from April 1 to April 15, 2026. The new schedule will establish regular school operations, which will begin at 8:45 AM and end at 1:30 PM until the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":98697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,9],"tags":[27522,21890],"class_list":["post-105856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-latest-news","tag-punjab-new-school-timings","tag-school-timings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105857,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105856\/revisions\/105857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}