June 11, Kathmandu - Today's meeting of the Central Committee for Textbook Monitoring at the Education and Human Resource Development Center has decided to include the textbooks in the essential services and transport them.

Textbooks that should be available free of cost have not yet reached all the schools as they are preparing to start the new academic session from June 15. Transportation problems have been seen during the lockdown period due to the Corona epidemic.

Committee Member and President of the Federation of Parents of Nepal, Suprabhat Bhandari, requested to keep the textbook transportation service in the most urgent service and to print the pages of old printed books (excluding new textbooks) of Kalapani, Limpiyadhura and Lipulek. The meeting of the Director General of the Center, Vaikuntha Aryalal, has also requested for the provision of vaccine against COVID-19 to the teachers and booksellers.

Similarly, the Curriculum Development Center has issued a notice urging all to sell and distribute only approved textbooks and use only books containing new maps of Nepal.

Minister for Education, Science and Technology Krishna Gopal Shrestha had instructed a few days ago to take legal action against those found selling unauthorized textbooks.