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| June 18, 2003 | Wednesday | Rabi-us-Sani 17, 1424 |
PTB faces action for textbook shortage
ISLAMABAD, June 17: The government will ask the Printing Corporation of Pakistan (PCP) to print textbooks for the government’s educational institutions following failure by the Punjab Textbook Board to meet their requirement.
“I will make it sure that task of printing textbooks is given to the PCP to meet the requirement of students,” Education Minister Zobaida Jalal said on Tuesday.
Talking to reporters at the Parliament House, the minister expressed concern over the persisting non-availability of textbooks and said she would take action against the Punjab Textbook Board in this regard.
In reply to a question, she said the federal education ministry had asked the Punjab Textbook Board to immediately print new books to meet the public demand within a week. However, even after the passage of more than a month the ministry have confirm reports that textbooks of a number of subjects of various classes till Secondary School Certificate (SSC) level are not available in the Punjab, she added. “I had already asked officials concerned of the Punjab Textbook Board to contact PCP for getting their order published since the latter has the capacity to print textbooks at such a large scale,” she said.
Meanwhile, to every body’s disappointment especially at the federal education ministry things have remained unchanged and parents are continuously complaining against the shortage of curricula books.
This year with the beginning of new academic year, a sever shortage of textbooks was observed especially for 9th and 10th class and people were forced to buy these books in the black market at much higher rates than the original prices.
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