PUNE: Confusion prevailed among parents over functioning of schools on Monday as messages of 'Pune Bandh' circulated on social media. Parents of school-going children enquired with each other on Sunday evening as messages regarding the bandh started circulating on WhatsApp.Following confusion among parents schools issued notifications with some making it voluntary among parents to send their children to schools, other pushing the scheduled exam ahead and few declaring a holiday on Monday.The Bishop's Co-ed school, Kalyaninagar issued a notification around 9.45 pm on Sunday on its mobile application addressing all parents. The notification said that: "In view of tomorrow's rally, there may be traffic diversions later in the day in certain parts of the city. You may accordingly decide to send your ward to school. The School buses will be plying on normal routes."The school had re-scheduled one paper from its on-going unit test on July 20 due to same issue when school bus transporters had called for a strike to Monday, July 30. With the confusion about bandh surfacing on Sunday evening, the school had to re-schedule the Monday exam once again which was stated in the circular issued. The circular regarding the exam said that, "The tests scheduled for tomorrow, 30th July 2018 is rescheduled to a later date. The date for the tests will be notified in due course of time."Meanwhile, other than The Bishop's School, parents of students studying in the Orbis School, said that the school had declared a holiday. Similarly, parents if students studying in Vibgyor at NIBM, Phoenix World School in Kharadi, Pawar Public School at Amanora had also declared a holiday as a safety step against the bandh news.All these schools had sent a message to the parents through the mobile applications late on Sunday evening, said the parents.