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Monsoon that had entered the country four days ago is yet to become fully active nationwide.

The Department of Hydrology and Meteorology had announced the arrival of monsoon in the country on June 8. According to meteorologist Barun Poudel, monsoon has been active in some areas of eastern and central parts of Nepal, it is likely to take some more days to move from east to westward and become fully active. The central part continues to witness rains at night. Rainfall has been forecast in surrounding of the Kathmandu Valley and eastern region Tuesday evening.

Though monsoon is active in the eastern part, maximum rainfall is measured at 45 millimeters on average. There seems no possibility of water-induced disasters for some days as heavy rainfall is yet to occur there.

As stated by Poudel, western parts of Nepal will continue to be hit by scorching heat as monsoon is to take some days to become active in the region.

According to the latest data released by the Meteorological Forecasting Division under the Department, Dhankuta received the maximum rainfall 41 mm Tuesday and it is followed by 27 mm in Simara, 15mm in Kathmandu and in Biratnagar and 5 mm in Okhadhunga. The Valley’s maximum temperature in the past three days was measured at 31 to 31.5 degree Celsius while it slightly slid today and was measured at 30 degree Celsius.

Monsoon in Nepal tentatively begins on June 10.

All community and institutional schools at four local-level in Parsa district have been shut from today after students started suffering from different diseases due to scorching heat.

The community and institutional schools located at Birgunj Metropolitan City, Pokhariya municipality, Sakhuwa Prasauni rural municipality and Thori rural municipality have been closed at the direction of the local-level.

Schools of Birgunj Metropolitan City and Pokhariya municipality have been closed until June 17 while schools located at Sakhuwa Prasauni and Thori rural municipalities have been closed for five days from June 11.

Officer at Education section of Birgunj Metropolitan City Manjur Ansari said that the schools have been closed at the request of students as well as parents.

The schools have been closed after students started suffering from various diseases including vomiting, headache and dizziness due to rise in mercury in the district for the past few days.