KATHMANDU The government has said that printing of textbooks would start after Tihar to avoid the crisis of course books in the new academic session.
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The Janak Education Material Center, the government body responsible to print the textbooks, said that around 6 million textbooks for grade six to 10 are in the stock at present, although the actual requirement is 18.6 million.
In the recent meeting with Education Minister Giri Raj Mani Pokhrel, the JEMC assured that the textbooks would be ready for delivery at the beginning of the new academic session in mid-April next year."We are printing only 20,000 textbooks on a daily basis for now, but will start printing 80,000 books per day within a month," JEMC GM Anil Kumar Jha told Republica. Though the government had earlier decided to assign only JEMC for printing the textbooks from this year onwards, the private sector have been invited to print and deliver the books for grade 1-5.
