Holi is celebrated on March 8, a school holiday (Representative Image/PTI)
Most schools and colleges have a public holiday on both Saturday and Sunday. Accordingly, schools and colleges will remain closed on March 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25 and 26
In most states, final exams for all grades are held in February-March. This year, the Holi festival will be celebrated on March 8. Therefore, apart from the 10th-12th exams, the schedule for other classes is made so that the exams end before Holi.
Schools usually start the new academic year in the last week of March or April-May, but this varies from state to state and administrations. However, some holidays in schools and colleges are common across the country. Here is a list of March holidays:
| Date | Day | Reason for vacation | Where is it celebrated |
| March 5th | Sunday | Panchayati Raj day | Odisha |
| March 7th | Tuesday | Holika Dahan, Doljatra | All of India |
| 8 March | Wednesday | Holi | All of India |
| March 22nd | Wednesday | Bihar day | Bihar |
| March 23 | Thursday | Bhagat Singh Martyr’s Day | Punjab and Haryana |
| 30 March | Thursday | Ram Navami | All of India |
Now, most schools and colleges hold a public holiday on both Saturday and Sunday. Accordingly, schools and colleges remain closed on March 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25 and 26. In addition to these fixed holidays, holidays are also given during festivals of any state (the date of which is not fixed), etc.
Meanwhile, the Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education (RBSE) starts the day after Holi, on March 9, with the exams for the 10th and 12th exam board. Class 10 exams will take place from March 16 to April 11. March 9 and April 12. The Rajasthan board will conduct the exams from 8:30 am to 11:45 am. Candidates must be at the center 30 minutes in advance. A total of 6081 exam centers have been created for the exams.
The RBSE class 10 board exams start with English exam papers and end with vocational subjects and Sanskrit. While the RBSE Class 12 board exam starts with a psychology paper and concludes with vocational subjects. Approximately 21.12.206 students have registered for the Board of Examiners this year. The government of Rajasthan has put in place some special security measures to prevent fraud in the exam.
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