• Binod raj Bist

Much has changed in the schools for the better of our students. Ways of teaching and learning have changed. School environments have also transformed to absorb the changes in teaching and learning. Despite these changes, one thing has remained unchanged, and that is the excessive weights of school bags that our students lug to their schools. It is a common sight to see students carrying school bags that are unnecessarily heavy and often larger in size than their backs. Scientific studies offer a range of adverse implications on students, as they grow into adulthood, from carrying heavy school bags. It is time that parents and policy makers also understand both the short- and long-term impacts as reported in these studies because our students carry their school bags from home to school and back, six days a week, nine months a year, for thirteen years of their developmental period.

Fatigue, muscle strain, back pain heavy school bag, poor body posture, cervical lumbar pain, distortion of the spine’s natural curves, rounding of the shoulders.

"Carrying heavy school bags adversely impacts students ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.482-485, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902957.pdf

"Carrying heavy school bags adversely impacts students ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp482-485, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902957.pdf