Schools to be closed for Games

The Delhi Cabinet on Monday approved an extended autumn holiday for government-run schools in a bid to ease traffic congestion in the national capital during the Commonwealth Games. The autumn break in schools will be extended from eight to 17 days while the summer break would be shortened from 61 days to 49.

The Delhi Cabinet decided that the autumn break would start from October 1 and will continue till October 17. The Commonwealth Games is being hosted in the city from October 3 till October 14.

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Army may run Commonwealth Games

The armed forces may have a new civilian role to play to make the Commonwealth Games in 2010 a success. One section of the government believes that, given the tardy pace of creation of infrastructure for the Games, it is best to hand over the projects in the National Capital Region to the defence services.

This will be over and above their task of providing an air-land-water security blanket for the Games.

Home minister Shivraj Patil has proposed that the construction of major infrastructure projects, which have already suffered huge cost and time overruns, be handed over to the defence establishment.

A ministerial group on the Games, headed by human resources minister Arjun Singh, will take a view on the proposal at its next meeting in a fortnight. It is likely that the proposal will have the blessings of the Prime Minister's Office.

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