MP government’s big initiative, Bagless Day will be held on one Saturday in a month in schools from class 6 to 8

Bhopal. The School Education Department has decided to organize various activities for children on Bagless Day to ensure the overall development of children studying from class 6 to 8 in the state. Apart from studies, various cultural, literary and practical activities will be conducted among the children on this day. In this regard, the State Education Center has issued instructions to the District Education Officers and District Project Coordinators. In the National Education Policy-2020, a provision has been made that children studying in schools can get acquainted with the skills of the 21st century, for this, Bagless Day should be organized for school children from class 6 to 8 on at least one Saturday in every month. On these days, students should be given information about practical skills.

For Bagless Day, the principal and teachers of the school have also been asked to prepare a calendar of activities by discussing. Information about activities “HD Geo taggy Photograph” has been asked to be sent to the email ID of State Education Center rsk.curriculum@gmail.com. The objective of Bagless-Day is to prepare students as successful, innovative and responsible citizens. Along with this, scientific approach, evidence based thinking and creativity is to be developed in students. The main thing is to develop dialogue, expression of ideas, health and nutrition, sports, spirit of cooperation and leadership qualities along with Indian knowledge tradition and environmental consciousness among students.

Activities to be held in Bagless-Day

The State Education Center has also issued guidelines regarding the activities to be held in Bagless-Day. In art and craft, drawing, painting, making of clay toys, masks, doll-making and making of objects from useless materials are important among children. In literary and cultural activities, folk song-dance, short drama, poetry recitation, story writing activities should be done among children. To make the children aware of modern methods of farming, they should be given information about polyforming, organic farming, medicinal plants and modern equipment used in farming. Along with this, site visits should also be organised. Children should be given information about historical places, small scale industries including bee-keeping, poultry and fish farming etc. Children should be taken on a tour of the local bank, police station, hospital and grain market. Children should be taken on a tour of units like handloom and toy manufacturing. Along with giving information about science, technology and environment to the children, sports activities should also be organised.