School-level textbooks are adequately available-JEMC province office

Chitwan: With the commencement of the new academic session, the Janak Education Materials Centre Provincial Office here has said that it has an adequate stock of school-level textbooks.

According to Office Chief Dhan Bahadur KC, there are 3,134,108 books in stock for grades 3 to 12.

The books have been dispatched to six districts, including Chitwan from the centre, it is informed.

The centre has been selling in Eastern Tanahun (Devghat and Khairhani Rural Municipalities), Rautahat, Bara, Parsa, Makawanpur, Nawalparasi (Bardaghat Susta East) and Chitwan.

Chief KC said, “The sale of textbooks has started before the onset of the academic session”.

Last year, 1,476,359 books were sold. The private sector had also sold textbooks for grades 3, 4 and 5 last year.

This year, the centre has been selling textbooks of grade 3.