LAHORE, May 16: The Punjab Textbook Board chairperson has claimed that the board has so far released 3.8 million more textbooks as compared to the corresponding period last year.

Presiding over a meeting to review the availability of textbooks here on Thursday, PTB chairperson Dr Fauzia Saleemi said some 70,000 curricula books were still in the printing process. In all, she said the board had so far released some 28 million textbooks.

She claimed that private publishers were also showing their interest for the purchase of PTB textbooks for their improved quality and standards.

She urged private publishers to print textbooks approved by the curriculum wing of the federal education ministry instead of wasting their time in publishing guides and other helping books.

Different publishers’ representatives and senior technical officers of the education department attended the meeting.