School Bags (Limitation of Weight) Bill presented before KP assembly.

Education Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Shahram Khan Tarakai on Friday presented the School Bags (Limitation of Weight) bill before the provincial assembly.

The bill is aimed to regulate the weight of schoolbags for the children.

The permissible weight of school bag for pre-Grade-1 would be 1.5 kg, Grade-1 2.4 kg, Grade-2 (2.6,) Grade-3 (3 kg), Grade-4 (4.4) kg, Grade-5 (5.3) kg, Grade-6 (5.4) kg, Grade-7 (5.8)kg, Grade-8 (5.9) kg, Grade-9 (6kg), Grade-10 (6.5kg) , Grade-11 (7kg) and Grade-12 (7kg).

The Provincial Minister for Education Shahram Khan Tarakai in the month of October had said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has become the first province to introduce such legislation.

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