Kolkata/IBNS, Sept. 4 -- Imagine six-year-old children, barely out of kindergarten, bent forward under a bag weighing nearly a quarter of their own body weight. This isn't a hypothetical scenario. It is a crisis in plain sight, a reality for millions of Indian schoolchildren - and a health concern that Kolkata-based social and cultural activist Sundeep Bhutoria has now thrust into the national spotlight.

This is not the first time Bhutoria has pursued a matter of everyday hardship with a Union Ministry.

He had pursued the matter relentlessly and after sustained follow-up the ministry finally changed the rules to exempt children below the age of five from appearing at the Kendras.

In a formal written appeal to the Union Minister of Stat...