Last week, authorities in Bihar state ordered the closure of all government-run and private schools until 14 January - postponing thenewschoolterm by a week.
She said there would be no services over the weekend but the transport authority was working to ensure that school bus services affected by Maytree's action would operate on Monday in time for thenewschoolterm.
Getting the 1.8 million children back to school in time for thenewterm is one of the biggest operations the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has ever undertaken.
Funeral services for victims have been attended by hundreds of mourners over the last few weeks, and children from the primary school have started a newterm at a new, renovated site.
Bus routes have been diverted for the foreseeable future and letters are going out to families informing them of school transport arrangements in time for the start of thenewterm.
In an editorial in the same journal, Dr John Baron, of Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire, said short-term studies appeared to suggest there was no effect from high dietary fibre intake on bowel cancer risk.