PESHAWAR: The Private Schools Regulatory Authority (PSRA) has directed all the private schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to implement limited weight of schoolbags.

It pointed out that section 3 of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Schools Bags (Limitation of Weight) Act, 2020, stated that the average weight of a schoolbag shall not be more than the weight as specified in the law.

According to the law, the average weight of schoolbag for the pre-grade shall be 1.5 kilogramme, 2.4kg for grade-1, 2.6kg for grade-2, 3kg for grade-3, 4.4kg for grade-4, 5.3kg for grade-5, 5.4kg for grade-6, 5.8kg for grade-7, 5.9kg for grade-8, 6kg for grade-9, 6.5kg for grade-10 and 7kg for grade-11 and grade-12.

The law was passed by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly to provide for a limitation of the weight of schoolbag to eliminate the possibility of deformities and spinal abnormalities in students caused due to excessive weight of their schoolbags.

Published in Dawn, December 15th, 2024