A teacher suggests solution to reduce weight of school bags

A teacher of A.V. Oza school in Lakhtar taluka of Surendranagar has conducted a successful experiment on the students to reduce the burden of their schoolbags by dividing the textbooks into chapters.

A teacher Dr Alpesh Trivedi had conducted this experiment 3 years ago and also presented a paper on it in a seminar in 2017-18. He initially conducted the experiment on 5 female students of the schools. The textbooks were divided into the segments as per the chapters and the students were required to only bring the segment of the required chapters in their bags. The bags weighed between 5 to 7 kgs before the experiment and they weighed 1.5 to 2 kgs after the experiment.

The experiment achieved the first rank in the innovation fair of Taluka level after which it was presented at district level innovation fair as well. DeshGujarat