“Students of classes I and II must also participate in activities such as drawing, playing as well as learning new things. Meanwhile, both parents and teachers welcomed the new order saying that it will decrease stress on children and they will have more time for other activities. If it is found that the schools are giving more homework or the weight of bags is more than the limit or if they are teaching more subjects, their registration will be cancelled,” the school education secretary said. “These mobile units will be constituted for inspection of schools. According to the guidelines, a mobile unit will be also constituted to inspect and check whether schools are complying with the order. Also, we have asked the schools to teach only two to three subjects in a day and they can only give up to two hours of homework to class III students in a week,” Sundaram said. “In no condition should the weight of a class X student’s school bag be higher than 5 kg. “We will revoke licences of those schools which teach more subjects or ask students to carry more books in their school bags.” The order also stipulates the weight of school bags till class X.
Speaking to TOI, Sundaram said that these guidelines will be enforced in both the government as well as private schools. This prompted the MHRD in October last year to order each state and union territory to formulate guidelines to regulate weight of school bags and teaching modalities in all schools. The Madras high court had in May last year asked the Union government to instruct state governments to regulate curriculum as well as weights of school bags. In his letter, Sundaram also re-iterated the earlier order of the Uttarakhand high court to teach only NCERT books in schools. Secretary of the school education department, R Meenaskhi Sundaram, in a letter to the education director has also ordered that the students of class I and II should only be taught languages and mathematics while only environmental science, language and mathematics should be taught till class V. DEHRADUN: Following a directive from the Union ministry of human resource development (MHRD), the state education department has issued an order forbidding homework for students of Class I and II and limiting the weights of their school bags to 1.5 kg.
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