Diving textbooks in three parts, adding blank pages part of steps to reduce school bag weight in Maharashtra
India Today
Maharashtra School Education Minister Deepak Kesarkar said that his department is working to reduce the weight of school bags.
On Monday, one of the Maharasthra state ministers said that the Maharashtra education department is contemplating dividing textbooks into three parts and attaching blank pages for using them to take down notes as part of efforts to make schoolbags lighter. While talking to the press, Maharashtra School Education Minister Deepak Kesarkar said that his department is working to reduce the weight of school bags.
He also added that the textbooks will be divided into three parts, but this will not bring down the weight of bags as notebooks will still have to be carried.
The education department is in the process of taking a decision in this regard, the minister added.\
(With PTI inputs)
