The Uttarakhand government aims to introduce fixed number of "bag-free" days per academic session in all state schools, starting from April this year. Under this new policy, one bag-free day will be introduced each month ,on the last Saturday for upper primary and secondary schools from class 6 to class 12.
Soil management, machine learning, pottery, woodwork, calligraphy, health education, communication skills, nature conservation, welding, casting, stitching and robotics will be taught to students on the ‘bag-free' days.