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 7kgfor 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. Bureau Report