Rajasthan mandates newspaper reading in government schools

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The Rajasthan authorities has made regular paper speechmaking compulsory successful each authorities schools successful an effort to beforehand speechmaking habits, amended vocabulary and heighten wide consciousness among students.

According to a December 31 order, students volition beryllium required to work newspapers for astatine slightest 10 minutes during the greeting assembly. The inaugural aims to familiarise students with existent affairs and make their quality to recognize and analyse quality astatine an aboriginal stage.

The directive from the State's School Education Department instructs authorities elder secondary schools and English-medium schools to subscribe to a minimum of 2 newspapers — 1 Hindi and 1 English — portion authorities precocious superior schools indispensable guarantee the availability of astatine slightest 2 Hindi newspapers.

The expenditure towards paper subscriptions volition beryllium borne by the Rajasthan School Education Council, Jaipur.

Schools person besides been asked to place 5 caller words from the newspapers each time and explicate their meanings to students to fortify connection skills. During greeting assemblies, 1 national-level paper successful English and 1 successful Hindi volition beryllium work aloud.

The bid further states that students should beryllium divided class-wise and encouraged to work and sermon editorials and large national, planetary and sporting developments.

Officials said the programme is designed not lone to amended students' wide cognition and societal consciousness but besides to hole them amended for competitory examinations.

The determination comes a week aft the Uttar Pradesh authorities introduced a akin directive successful authorities schools, making paper speechmaking a mandatory activity.

Published - January 03, 2026 10:27 americium IST

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