Going digital may ease school bag burden
New Delhi, November 28
It’s a burden that could be well avoided. Hapless school-going children in the country have little choice but lug around bag loads of books, which more often than not are too much to handle.
But not anymore. Guidelines recently issued by the Ministry of Human Resource Development put a bar on the load of school bags.
Positive step
Both parents and experts have welcomed the move but feel that making it work is easier said than done. To make it effective, some even suggested a revamp of school curricula.
“This was long overdue. My daughter who is in Class I goes to school carrying a bag that weighs around 4 kg. Apart from books, lunchbox and water bottle also make her bag heavy. If schools can put up water purifiers, then there is no need for them to carry water bottles,” said Dolly Agarwal whose daughter is studying in Noida’s Cambridge Public School.
Alpana Dubey, another parent, said, “My 10-year-old son generally takes 14 books — including notebooks — everyday which makes his bag very heavy. With homework given on a regular basis, children have also to take books back and forth on a daily basis.”
According to the HRD circular, the weight of school bags for Classes I and II should not be more than 1.5 kg, 2-3 kg for students of Classes III and V, and up to 4 kg for of Classes VI and VII. And it can be 4.5 kg and 5 kg, respectively, for students of Classes VIII-IX and X.
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