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School Textbooks Scarcity In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
March 30, 2012: textbooks scarcity has been the regular problems in Nepal. Hundreds of thousands of school children don’t get textbooks not only on time but also never get them during the academic year in the remote areas of Nepal. The state-run Janak Education Materials Center (JEMC) and Sajah Prakashan (Pbkication) keep the monopoly on printing and distributing textbooks gratis. JEMC prints textbooks and Sajha Prakashan distributes them.
Printing and distributing textbooks are the multi-million rupees business. So, the officials from the departmental minister to the lowest level officials are for taking commissions for doing anything. Everyone in the textbooks business makes money but the suffers are the poor students supposed to receive the textbooks free.
JEMC has to print about 20 million copies of textbooks. It has to complete the printing of another 5 million copies of textbooks to achieve the target of printing textbooks this year but JEMC has the capacity of printing only 100, 000 copies of textbooks per day; it won’t be on target of printing the textbooks in this academic year, too, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes.
The School Leaving Certificate Examinations (SLC) often dubbed as the iron gate have completed on Thursday, March 29, 2012. The Office of Controller of Examinations (OCE) has stated that 528,257 students took this year’s SLC exam at 1,748 centers across the country. The OCE has deployed 56,000 officials such as superintendents, assistant superintendents, invigilators and peons for the SLC exam held for nine days at the cost of Rs 280 million according to the news published in ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today. The examination cost per student comes to Rs 530.
