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BHUBANESWAR: The All Odisha Parents’ Association has urged the state government to strictly implement the school bag weight limits prescribed by the ministry of human resource development ( MHRD ). They alleged that most government or private schools in the state were not implementing the MHRD’s guidelines on reducing the weight of school bags.“The weight of the bag of a Class III student studying in a CBSE school varies between 7 and 9 kg. If children don’t have access to NCERT textbooks, they have to use many other textbooks,” Patnaik said. I personally weighed the bags of children studying in different classes, in different schools. This, according to the guidelines, should be between 2 and 3 kg..