LARKANA, April 30: Expressing concern over the non- availability of textbooks, the district council in its Friday's session, feared the selling of textbooks in the open market.

Speaking on the occasion, Amir Bakhsh Gaad, head of the sub- committee on education, alleged that instead of distribution amongst the students, textbooks found their way in markets, thanks to the education department's bureaucracy.

Hayat Shaikh, Badar Abbasi, Khair Mohammed Shaikh said that different committees with Nazims as chairmen should be constituted throughout the district to ensure the proper distribution of textbooks.

It was observed that the last year books were sold out in market and millions of rupees of the district government had gone down the drain. They also posed a question that how could those (education officials) be relied upon who had defied the ban put on utilizing School Management Committees funds.