Enrollment campaign to kick off from April 14; textbooks reach all districts

KATHMANDU: The Janak Education Materials Centre (JEMC) has delivered textbooks to all 77 districts three days before the start of the new educational session.

Centre’s Managing Director Anil Kumar Jha informed that books of all subjects have been printed at nine outlets in different parts of the country for the academic year 2081 BS.

According to the schedule published by the Center, textbooks have been sold out from Biratnagar, Janakpur, Sanothimi-based central offices, Bharatpur, Pokhara, Butwal, Nepalgunj, Surkhet and Dhangadhi from March 26 to April 10.

“We have completed the responsibility to deliver textbooks to districts on time with utmost efforts”, he shared, adding textbooks will now be made available to the students through the distributors.

Managing Director Jha said, “Maybe they do not need to hear complaints this time about delay delivery of books to the hands of the students.

The JEMC has also made public a price iist of the textbooks from grade 3 to 12 for the upcoming educational session. Additionally, the Centre has also made public the price list of classified distributors for each state.

Last year, books were made available in the market before the academic year. Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ had been motivating the concerned bodies for timely distribution of textbooks, while this year Education Minister Sumana Shrestha has inspected the office and press office of the Center in Bhaktapur and directed to provide the books on time.

The student enrollment campaign for the new academic session is going to start across the country from April 14. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Centre for Education and Human Resource Development has urged the local levels and other stakeholders to prepare and implement the student enrollment campaign facilitation action plan.