‘No bag day’ for schools in Telangana

The Telangana government is all set to introduce ‘no bag day’ in all schools.

A proposal in this regard is being prepared by the Directorate of School Education.

Karnataka already implements ‘no bag day’ once a month.

To be observed once a week or month, students will have fewer classes and more extra-curricular activities on this day, most likely to be a Saturday.

Earlier, the government had directed the schools to not let the bag weight for students of Classes I and II exceed 1.5 kg, and for Classes III to V - 3 kg.

For the Classes VI and VII, the weight was limited to 4 kg, for Classes VIII and IX, not more than 4.5 kg and Class X students should not carry the bag weight exceeding 5 kg.