Schools, colleges in City shut Sept 17.

Bhubaneswar: The state government Saturday announced that all schools and colleges in the Capital city would remain closed September 17 in view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the state on that day.

According to an official re- lease, all the government offices, including revenue and magis- terial courts here, will also be closed for the first half of September 17.

During his visit, the PM would launch Subhadra Yojana, a women-centric scheme of the state government.

The government, in an order, placed at least 50 OAS officers under the disposal of the Women and Child Development depart- ment and assigned them the re- sponsibility of crowd manage- ment during the PM’s programme at Janata Maidan here September 17. SPG per- sonnel have already reached the City for the PM’s programmes, an official said.