vijayawada the state governments decision to implement no bag day in schools every saturday is receiving positive response from both parents and students associations chief minister ys jaganmohan reddy in his recent review meetings with authorities of school education department took this decision and decided to promote extracurricular activities and sports in schools he also said that he would focus on reducing the weight of school bags to benefit the childrenour government is committed to set standards in education corporate schools are pressurising students to run behind ranks and marks and parents are indirectly supporting them but we will promote sports and other outdoor activities in schools to break this hectic schedule said vijayawada west legislator vellampalli srinivas parents welcomed the move as it would help relieve stress levels among students my son studies in class 5 and carries a school bag of around 16kg every day we never encouraged our children to indulge in sports and they spend most of the time in school and tuitions the governments decision has been making us realise the importance of extracurricular activities which we enjoyed in our childhood said k nagar durga kumari a parenteven jana sena welcomed the decision taken by the new government and demanded stringent action on schools which do not have playgrounds we appreciate the decision taken by the cm for declaring saturdays as no bag day most schools do not have the infrastructure to handle sports the government should take action on these schoolssaid jana sena coordinator p venkata mahesh