“…Shifting school timings to later hours is a practical approach because misalignment of the sleep schedule with the school timing, if carried over for a prolonged period, will result in regularly persistent and irrefutable sleep-debt. Adolescents already undergo tremendous developmental changes on the level of their brain and body, and in addition to it, if they will not get proper sleep to rejuvenate, then this chronic sleep debt may hamper their emotional, mental, physiological and metabolic well-being on a serious note (Hansen et al, 2005;Giedd, 2009;Giedd et al, 2012;Sawyer et al, 2012;Sørensen et al, 2012;Foster et al, 2013;Ahmad, 2020). Alignment of the biological and school clock will help adolescents in improving their health, along with the better academic performance that too in a relatively less stressed atmosphere (Ward, 2021).…”