Mysuru:  After two months of summer vacation, schools across the district reopened from this morning.

While some students attired in their new uniforms on the first day of reopening were happy to return to school after a long gap, students of kindergarten and various primary schools were seen crying and being pacified by their parents.

Some private and CBSE syllabus schools had already reopened last week.

Sources in Department of Public Instruction (DPI) told SOM that district has 3,457 primary and High Schools including Government, aided, private (unaided) and Social Welfare Department-run schools. Of the 2,147 Government Schools, 1,915 are elementary schools and 232 are high schools.

Of the total 275 aided schools, 135 are primary schools and 136 are high schools. Of the 910 private schools, 581 of them are primary schools and 329 are high schools. Of the total 113 Social Welfare Department-run schools, 68 of them are elementary schools and 45 are high schools. Apart from this, there are 12 Central Schools like Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya which also reopened from today.

This academic year will have 15 additional working days, totalling 250 school days between May 29, 2019 and April 11, 2020 as against the 2018-19 academic year that had 235 working days according to time table circulated by DPI. This will apply to all State Board Schools — Public, private, aided and unaided.