Education Minister Shaik Baksh said he has noted with concern the recent upsurge of intolerable behaviour in schools and will soon implement several new measures to curb it including a ban on all cellular phones among the student population countrywide.

“There is unacceptable behaviour in our school system some of which could be classified as criminal. We have noticed an increase in physical violence, substance abuse and in

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