Students relieved from carrying heavier bags

Updated on: Saturday, April 28, 2012

From the coming academic year, students in schools across Tamil Nadu will be relieved from the burden of carrying heavier bags.

With the introduction of trimester system from the forthcoming academic year, school bags of students will be reduced to half the usual weight, as the students of classes 1 to 4 need to carry one textbook instead of four, and those in classes 5 to 8 will carry two textbooks instead of five.

Henceforth, students from classes 1 to 4 will have a around 30 pages and cover four subjects, while those from classes 5 to 8 will have language lessons clubbed with other subjects in one book of 60 pages.
 
The state has gone all out to reduce the weight of schoolbag of students.
 
This will ensure that a student carries a maximum of 10% of his or her bodyweight. However, health experts consider even this is too heavy for children in the age group.
 
According to detailed study carried out by a leading Medical College from Mangalore, found that bags weighing 5% of the bodyweight of the child could affect the trunk and lower limbs and those weighing 15% of body weight could adversely affect the head, neck, trunk and the lower limbs, and change the overall posture of the child.
 
Schools affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education have already taken efforts to reduce the weight of schoolbags.

The board had asked schools to provide space for bags of children up to Class 2 so they need not carry them to school and back home, and make changes to introduce alternatives to homework. Some schools in Delhi, Baroda, Bangalore and Nagpur have started using ClassPad, a personalized educational tablet, to replace books for high school students.

Students have more to cheer about, with the introduction of the Comprehensive and Cumulative Evaluation system from classes 1 through 8 from the academic year 2012-13, the workload will be cut drastically, apart from being relieved of heavier school bags.

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