kochi the kerala high court on friday allowed cbse schools to conduct classes during summer vacation for a maximum of 20 dayscbse regional directors should consider the application filed by school principals that are accompanied by resolutions passed by parent teachers associations ptas seeking to conduct classes during the vacation the court directedwhile issuing permission for conducting classes during vacation cbse authorities should take into consideration the number of working days lost during the academic year and whether facilities are available to ensure that the summer heat does not adversely affect the students the court said facilities mentioned by the court includes availability of drinking water in school premises fans in classrooms and adequate number of toilets though the maximum number of day permitted for conducting classes has been fixed at 20 cbse regional director can fix a lesser number of days for a school after considering whether there is necessity for allowing classes up to 20 days the court addedthe courts order came after considering petitions filed by around a dozen schools including one filed by sdky gurukula vidhyalaya at eroor through advocate sajeevkumar k gopalin the petition sdky gurukula vidhyalaya had pointed out that the state government has now issued an order imposing a complete ban of vacation classes citing the extreme summer season conducting vacation classes for students of 9th and 10th classes was considered by the high court in april last year the court had directed schools to submit applications before the regional director of cbse and had permitted to conduct vacation classes as per the regional directors orders the order issued by the state government is not binding on cbse schools as it doesnt have supervisory powers over such schools the sdky gurukula vidhyalaya had contendedit was also pointed out by the school that it has to follow the cbse calendar syllabus has to conduct the required number of classes and has to follow the examination schedule vacation classes are essential to ensure a better future to the students the petition had statedthe school also alleged that the government is granting permission to conduct camps and seminars during the vacation and the only restriction is to ensure availability of drinking water food fan toilet and firstaid facility thus it means programmes can be permitted without the extreme summer affecting the students the school had argued while stating that classes are going on in all kendriya vidyalayas during april