{"id":4697,"date":"2004-10-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/10\/26\/2004-10-26-indian-government-changes-winter-break-time\/"},"modified":"2004-10-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T12:00:00","slug":"2004-10-26-indian-government-changes-winter-break-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/10\/26\/2004-10-26-indian-government-changes-winter-break-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Government Changes Winter Break Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/895455.cms\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 21: After &#8220;detoxifying&#8221; history textbooks, HRD minister Arjun Singh has turned his attention to &#8220;desaffronising&#8221; school holidays, begins this Times of India report. Following complaints from Christians over last year&#8217;s decision by then HRD minister M M Joshi to have the winter break in January instead of December, Arjun Singh has decided to revert to the old system. The 10-day break in all Centre-run Kendriya Vidyalayas will now begin from December 22, instead of January 5. &#8220;This (previous government&#8217;s decision) had caused inconvenience to minority communities, especially Christians (2% of India&#8217;s population). It is hoped the change will assuage the feelings of the minority community,&#8221; the HRD ministry said on Thursday. While the official reason for change of dates by the NDA government had been &#8220;excessive weather conditions&#8221; (first week of January being the coldest in northern states), many suspected a &#8220;saffron conspiracy.&#8221; Some major Hindu festivals like Lohri, Pongal and Makar Sankranti occur between January 5 and 19. The decision was criticized as it allowed holidays during Hindu festivals, depriving Christian students and teachers from celebrating Christmas, the Times of India report concludes.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, October 21: After &#8220;detoxifying&#8221; history textbooks, HRD minister Arjun Singh has turned his attention to &#8220;desaffronising&#8221; school,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}