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"No Bag Day"- A space created for Joyful learning in Schools

A lot is taught but little is learnt! Concern regarding the academic burden of students and unsatisfactory quality of learning have been voiced repeatedly in our country. Yashpal committee has highlighted the same which stated that “A lot is taught but little is learnt or understood”. In their report of Learning without Burden 1993, which says that opportunities for children to carry out experiments, excursion or any kind of observation are very scaring and textbook asking children to observe a picture of the object under the study rather than asking children and teacher to go out and observe the object in nature itself. A teacher is engaging her students actively with the help of Baal-Geet in  JP Janu Senior Secondary Schools, Jhunjhunu Patitapaban Choudhury- Batch 10 Fellow at Alsisar Block, Jhunjhunu (Rajasthan) of Kaivalya Education Foundation - A Piramal Initiative has observed many children fall in the category of “a lot is taught but little is learnt or understood b