Arrangements in place for textbooks distribution

Arrangements in place for textbooks distribution
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Hyderabad: School Education(SE) Department made elaborate arrangements to make for the availability of text books , free of cost for government school students and for a fixed price to private schools by the beginning of next academic year.

Hyderabad: School Education(SE) Department made elaborate arrangements to make for the availability of text books , free of cost for government school students and for a fixed price to private schools by the beginning of next academic year.

The SE department has issued detailed guidelines to the district education officers keeping previous experiences in view.

The department is planning to provide with sufficient books unlike the previous academic years where there was a delay in availability of books. Any scope for such mishap is said to be eliminated through proper planning.

District education officers were directed to call for the tenders for the transportation of books and to fix the logistic schedules of books to the mandal and school points at the earliest.

They were told to inform the schedules to the higher-ups. The director of text book press has been instructed to prepare the schedule and monitor the dispatch of textbooks to DEOs and MEOs.

The progress of the textbooks distribution would be put on the website of the School Education department.

According to the guidelines the mandal educational officers are required to maintain school wise indent register for primary, upper primary and high schools.

The SE officials said that there were complaints from unaided private schools that names of students of their schools were included in the government school records with Aadhaar numbers and this has to be deleted.

Books meant for free distribution are being printed with Pink color cover page to avoid diversion, officials added.

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