Given the rise of Covid-19 cases, all government and private schools in Madhya Pradesh will be shut from January 15 to 31.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan made the after a meeting he held with the crisis management group on Friday.
The Chief Minister further said that all political and religious gatherings will be banned in the state till further orders. However there is no ban on Makar Sankranti, he added.