Amid the India Meteorological Division issuing a ‘Purple Alert’ for Mumbai and suburbs until Tuesday, predicting heavy rains, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company on Monday issued an order stating all colleges and schools in Mumbai – metropolis and suburbs – will stay closed on Tuesday.
The BMC clearly talked about that the order applies to all authorities, personal, and municipal colleges and schools within the metropolis and suburbs.
“The choice has been taken as a precautionary measure to make sure the security of scholars and employees, given the potential of intense downpours, waterlogging, and visitors disruptions,” X put up shared by BMC mentioned.
Just like BMC, Thane Municipal Company too introduced {that a} vacation has been declared for all sorts of faculties, of all mediums and all managements on 18 August 2025 and 19 August 2025, citing incessant rains.
It wrote, “Within the backdrop of the continuing heavy rainfall in Thane district, a vacation has been declared for all sorts of faculties, of all mediums and all managements, within the Thane Municipal Company space on 18 August 2025 and 19 August 2025.”
In the meantime, the Climate Division has issued a Purple and Orange alert for twenty-four hours in a number of districts of Maharashtra. The state has been experiencing heavy rainfall since early Monday morning.
The Purple alert has been issued in areas together with Mumbai, Raigad, Pune Ghat, Satara Ghat, Ratnagiri, and Kolhapur Ghat. A number of districts, together with Palghar, Thane, Sindhudurg, Jalgaon, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Jalna, Beed, Latur, Amravati, Chandrapur, and Gadchiroli, have been put beneath orange alert.
The BMC has even appealed to residents to keep away from stepping out except completely mandatory. For any emergency or official info, residents are suggested to succeed in out to the BMC important management room helpline at 1916.
Earlier, CM Devendra Fadnavis on Monday mentioned that Mumbai obtained 177 millimetres of rain in a 6-8 hour interval and extra is predicted by the day together with excessive tides.
