While the state education department continues to send circulars to schools, asking them to celebrate various initiatives and remembrance days, teachers and school heads say that the last-minute and often unplanned activities cut into the school’s study timetable. Recently, the department issued a week-by-week calendar for teachers across the state, which also chalked out co-curricular activities.

In August alone, the schools were asked to celebrate Nav Bharat Literacy Campaign, Har Ghar Tiranga, Meri Mati Mera Desh, Partition Remembrance Day, Hamara Vidyalaya, Hamara Swabhiman, Rashtriya Krida Din, while a timetable released by the government of Maharashtra also mentions Chakradhar Swami Avatar Day, Nana Patil Jayanti, and Anna Bhau Sathe’s birth anniversary.