{"id":96953,"date":"2026-01-10T14:37:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=96953"},"modified":"2026-01-10T14:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:52:17","slug":"educational-institutions-in-punjab-to-reopen-on-january-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/educational-institutions-in-punjab-to-reopen-on-january-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Educational institutions in Punjab to reopen on January 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Keeping in mind the health of students and the severity of the weather, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-education-minister-seeks-public-opinion-on-extending-school-holidays\/\">Punjab Education Minister<\/a> has taken a major decision to extend the holidays of educational institutions by a week.<\/p>\n<p>Under this decision, educational institutions across the province will now open from January 19.<\/p>\n<p>According to Education Minister Rana Sikandar Hayat, this decision was made on the basis of a public survey conducted on his social media page, in which the majority voted in favor of extending the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>He said that after public consultation, it was decided to extend the holidays by prioritizing the health of students.<\/p>\n<p>According to the survey results, about 87 percent of people supported the extension of the holidays, while 13 percent voted in favor of opening educational institutions from January 12.<\/p>\n<p>In the Education Minister\u2019s poll, 154,178 votes were cast in favor of January 19, while 24,829 votes were cast in favor of January 12.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Education has directed all CEOs of Education to ensure full implementation of this decision in their respective districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Keeping in mind the health of students and the severity of the weather, the Punjab Education Minister has taken a major decision to extend the holidays of educational institutions by a week. Under this decision, educational institutions across the province will now open from January 19. According to Education Minister Rana Sikandar Hayat, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":79892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[33617],"class_list":["post-96953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-punjab-extended-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96953","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96958,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96953\/revisions\/96958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}