KP assembly passes School Bags Weight Bill 2020
Last updated on: 08 December,2020 05:52 pm
KP assembly passes School Bags Weight Bill 2020
PESHAWAR (Dunya News) - The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly has passed the School Bags Weight Limitation Bill 2020. Under the bill, the weight of the bag will be determined separately for each class.
According to the text of the bill, the weight of school bag for first class students will be 2.4 kg, for second class 2.6 kg and for third class 3 kg. The bag weight for high school students will be no more than 7kg.
According to the bill, action would be taken against the principals of the government schools and fine up to Rs200,000 would be slapped over private educational institutions over the violation.
It may be recalled that on October 7, in the light of the orders of the Peshawar High Court, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cabinet had approved a draft law on the weight of school bags.
In the draft of the proposed law, it was proposed to keep the weight of school bags for second to fifth grade from 2.5 to 5.3 kg.
It was suggested to keep the weight of school bags from 5.4 to 6.5 kg from sixth to tenth class.
Similarly, 11th and 12th class school bags were proposed to weigh 7kg.