Government to set up Guidelines for Schools regarding School bags

Updated on: Wednesday, August 19, 2015

bag To make the school going process more joyous one, a set of guidelines have been set by the Central government instructing steps such as well-designed timetables. Other measures proposed include discouraging text books and children up to Class 2 no need to carry heavy bags to school.

The guidelines, which would be submitted before the Central Advisory Board on Education on August 19 for consideration will also support the concept of "class libraries" to inculcate the habit of reading among students and supplement those who do not bring textbooks on a particular day. The guidelines have been issued since there's a concern about the weight of the school bags and children's health. It has been instructed to school principals and teachers to create a well-designed timetable for each section of the class so that children need not have to carry too many books or notebooks to the school.

"It will also help in ensuring that co-curricular activity periods are held along with the other periods on daily basis, thereby having an equitable distribution of weight of school bags," an agenda note prepared for August 19 meeting said.

Some of the guidelines are basically a restructuring of policies developed by education boards from time to time an HRD Ministry official said. CBSE has already instructed schools to maintain and keep school bags up to class II.

The Directorate of Education under the Delhi government had also proposed a set of guidelines after a case was filed in Delhi High Court in 2012 on the issue of heavy school bags.

Government to set up Guidelines for Schools regarding School bags

More Education news