Overview
- Additional Chief Secretary Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma instructed secondary and basic schools to integrate newspapers into daily routines across Uttar Pradesh.
- Schools must provide reputable Hindi and English newspapers in libraries and ensure easy student access.
- Students will, on rotation, read key editorials and major national, international, and sports news during the assembly slot.
- The order prescribes a word-of-the-day exercise, student-run school papers or magazines, weekly editorial writing or group discussions for Classes 9–12, and crossword or Sudoku contests, with scrapbooks encouraged in junior classes.
- The move extends a November 2 reading campaign that opened district libraries to students, required weekly non-syllabus book issuance, and promoted the 'No Bouquet, Only Book' practice, with both orders circulated for strict statewide implementation.