Updated On: 11 November, 2015 07:12 AM IST | | Varun Singh and Shreya Bhandary
<p>While the department issued instructions to conduct awareness campaigns against fire crackers on Monday, colleges had already shut for Diwali holidays</p>

This is yet another effort by the state education department that has bombed due to bad planning – the state’s department of Higher and Technical Education issued a circular instructing colleges to hold awareness campaigns for students on the ill effects of firecrackers.

The education department’s circular against firecrackers has come nearly two weeks late. File pic for representation