Students, parents and school authorities have welcomed the Manipur Government ‘No School Bag Day’ initiative. The education department of Manipur has introduced a ‘No School Bag Day’ on all working Saturdays for students of classes 1 to 8. This is to impart other skills to students besides textbooks.
The decision was arrived at after a lot of consideration by the education department. They wanted to make schools more conducive and a joyful. Also children, in due course, have to bear the brunt of physical and mental effects of carrying heavy bags to school everyday.
Children of mid-level and primary sections are often bogged down with routine school related assignments and homework giving them little or no time to indulge in any extra curricular activities including sports.
Source: NDTV
