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you are Deepak/Deepika. Everyday you watch school children carrying heavy school bags on their backs. Their bags are getting heavier day by day Instead of becoming lighter. write an article in about 100-120 words expressing your ideas about making schoolbags lighter. you may use the following hints:▪heavy schoolbags: chronic back pain ▪not easy to carry on back▪lockers in school- school books/classwork notebooks ▪only homework to be carried home▪use E-books and computers​

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Reduction of weight of school bags

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Reduction of weight of school bags

Issue of heavy school bags

General guidelines to reduce the load of school bags

Guidelines for Primary Schools

Upper Primary Sections and Secondary Schools – Classes VI & VII and VIII to X

Implementation

Issue of heavy school bags

Heavy School Bags are a serious threat to the health and wellbeing of the students. It has a severe, adverse physical effect on the growing children which can cause damage to their vertebral column and knees. It also causes anxiety in them. Moreover, in the schools which are functioning in multistoried buildings, the children have to climb the steps with heavy School Bags, which further aggravates the problem and health consequences.

This heavy load is caused by the fact that the children bring textbooks, guides, home work notebooks, rough work notebooks etc., to the classroom every day. Therefore, clear Guidelines of what to bring to the schools is required.

The load of a School Bag, as estimated in some of the Telangana districts, weighs about 6 to 12 Kgs at Primary level and 12 to 17 Kgs at High School level.