Schoolbags should carry 10% of child's weight: Central government issues guidelines

- Also clarified in case of homework

New Delhi on Wednesday, December 9, 2020

The central government had clarified that the schoolbag should contain 10 per cent of the weight of the school child. The Centre's education department released some new guidelines.

Some of the guidelines are really interesting. Such as not giving homework to children up to second standard, every school should have digital weighbridges, the school should have adequate system of clean drinking water etc.

Such guidelines were added to the new national education policy. The key issue was the child's schoolbag. In some schools today, the weight of a schoolbag is so much that the child becomes dizzy. As a result some parents give the child a trolley bag. The new education policy clarified that trolley bags would not run. Schoolbags should not weigh more than ten percent of a student's weight in grades one through ten. The policy also provided for strict action against schools violating the rules.

School administrators were instructed to ensure that the weight of the schoolbag did not exceed that of the student at regular intervals.