KATHMANDU, April 11: The Janak Education Materials Center (JEMC) has delivered textbooks to all 77 districts three days before the start of the new educational session.
The JEMC's Managing Director Anil Kumar Jha told RSS that books of all subjects have been printed at nine outlets in different parts of the country for the academic year 2081 BS.
According to the schedule published by the Center, textbooks have been sold out from Biratnagar, Janakpur, Sanothimi-based central offices, Bharatpur, Pokhara, Butwal, Nepalgunj, Surkhet and Dhangadhi from March 26 to April 10.
Not a single textbook printed for primary schools
"We have completed the responsibility of delivering textbooks to the districts on time with utmost efforts," Jha shared, adding textbooks will now be made available to the students through the distributors.
Managing Director Jha said, "Maybe we won’t hear complaints this time about the students getting their textbooks late.”
The JEMC has also made public a price list of the textbooks from grades 3 to 12 for the upcoming academic session. Additionally, the Center has also made public the price list of classified distributors for each province.
Last year, books were made available in the market before the academic year. Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal had been motivating the concerned bodies for timely distribution of textbooks, while this year Education Minister Sumana Shrestha has inspected the office and press office of the Center in Bhaktapur and directed the officials to provide the textbooks on time.
The student enrollment campaign for the new academic session is going to start across the country from April 14. The Center for Education and Human Resource Development under the federal Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has urged the local governments and other stakeholders to prepare and implement a student enrollment campaign facilitation action plan.
