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New school hours throughout the province, including Lahore, have been announced by the Punjab School Education Department and will take effect on August 1st.
Boys" schools will therefore start at 7:30 AM and end at 1 PM. Girls" schools will operate from 7:15 AM to 1 PM in the meantime.
On Fridays, however, school will stop at 11:00 a.m. for girls and 11:30 a.m. for boys.
The first shift at schools that run two shifts is from 7:00 AM to 12:00 PM, and the second shift is from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM.
Furthermore, starting on October 15th, the winter hours will be in effect.
The Punjabi government declared summer vacations from 1 June to 31 July 2022 in May.
As instructors had not yet received their pay, the provincial education department had previously issued a warning that the afternoon schools would be closed if funding was not given within a month.
The province"s 7,000 Insaf Afternoon Schools were about to close in May owing to a lack of funding, and it was discovered that thousands of teachers hadn"t received their pay in roughly four months.