India, April 7 -- Over 60 percent of students are spending more than two hours a day on recreational screen time, according to the Department of Health's latest "Student Health Service Annual Health Report" for the 2023-24 academic year.
The report has prompted experts to call for screen time regulations and push for gaming companies to shoulder more social responsibility, including taxation on addictive games.
The survey revealed that 61 percent of students exceed two hours of daily screen usage for entertainment. Among them, 43.3 percent were primary school students, while a staggering 89.9 percent were secondary school students.
While the percentage among primary school students dropped slightly from 47.1 percent in the 2022-23 school...