No school bags for pre-primary, no homework till Class 2 in J&K
Team Careers360 | April 16, 2020 | 05:14 PM IST | 1 min read
NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday notified new rules banning school bags and formal books for pre-primary (nursery, LKG, UKG) classes. It also forbade homework assignments to students up to Class 2.
In the notification shared by the principal secretary of the School Education Department late Wednesday, the government instructed that “students of pre-primary levels are… asked [not] to carry any bag except light carrier for lunch box.”
It also said that “no formal books are prescribed at pre-primary” however they could be provided with “two notebooks or workbooks to be kept in the school itself”.
The new rules were formed as a measure to regulate the weight of school bags. It has also prescribed limitations to school bag weight for each Class up to Class 10.
The notification further reads: “No homework should be assigned to students of classes up to 2nd standard.”
School authorities were also instructed to ensure that students are not asked to bring “additional books and extra materials to school”.
The rules were introduced after an amendment in the Jammu and Kashmir School Education Act 2002.
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