{"id":1022042,"date":"2026-07-18T09:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022042"},"modified":"2026-07-18T09:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:55:20","slug":"bengal-higher-secondary-council-bars-phone-use-by-students-during-school-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/18\/bengal-higher-secondary-council-bars-phone-use-by-students-during-school-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengal higher secondary council bars phone use by students during school hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state higher secondary council has barred students from bringing or using mobile phones in government and aided schools. <\/p>\n<p>The ban will be in force during school hours \u2014 including classroom teaching, examinations, assemblies and other academic activities \u2014 the council said in a notice. <\/p>\n<p>The July 17 notice from the council president addressed to heads of institutions says: \u201cStudents may be advised not to bring or use mobile phones during school hours, including during classroom teaching&#8230; except under exceptional circumstances with the prior permission of the head of the institution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state higher secondary council has barred students from bringing or using mobile phones in government and aided schools. The ban will be in force during school hours \u2014 including classroom teaching, examinations, assemblies and other academic activities \u2014 the council said in a notice. The July 17 notice from the council president addressed to heads of institutions says: \u201cStudents may be advised not to bring or use mobile phones during school hours, including during classroom teaching&#8230; except under exceptional circumstances with the prior permission of the head of the institution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022050,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022042\/revisions\/1022050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}