Monday, June 16, 2008

School bags on wheels

This morning as I stood on the balcony sipping my morning cuppa chai, I saw this young school girl dressed in her school uniform pulling a trolley bag down the road towards a car that was parked a minute away. On closer inspection, I noticed that the trolley was actually a regular school bag, with wheels and a pull-handle. This scene reminded me of an article featured just two days back on the 14th June in the Times of India “Now school carry books on trolleys

Much has been written about the heavy school bags already, so I don’t need to delve into the issue again. In fact, some time back I wrote about the Chandigarh Government’s plan of doing away with textbooks and thus with heavy school bags. I don’t know how far the plan is being implemented, but here, in Hyderabad, it looks as if the students will have resort to carts and trolleys to lighten the burden, since the authorities haven’t even recognized excessively heavy schoolbags as a problem to be addressed.

1 comment:

angel said...

Parents are providing their children trolley bags to carry their books to school. But its not necessary that every parent can afford this so the Government should look to this matter.

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