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Textbooks distribution starts in TN schools
Posted on: 09/Aug/2011 11:41:14 PM
After nearly two months of uncertainty, students finally got to know from Tuesday`s Supreme Court verdict that they will, indeed, learn as per the syllabus of the Uniform System of School Education (Samacheer Kalvi) initiative.
The education department officials have already started their works on book distribution to all the 45000 govt and aided schools from yesterday evening itself.
According to sources in the School Education Department, textbooks printed by the Tamil Nadu Textbook Corporation were stocked at different points in each district. The books were to be handed over to the heads of schools in the next few days, said a senior official. “Objectionable content” would be appropriately deleted at these nodal points before the textbooks are distributed.
On how the department intended to make up for the lost time, the official said it would evolve an effective arrangement very soon. On whether an academic authority will be constituted, he said: “First, we need to go through the judgment copy in detail. We will take all the necessary steps very soon.”
Private schools, on the other hand, were trying to place orders for textbooks approved by the government. “All the private schools will place orders and I think it will take about a month for the entire set to be ready. However, we can download the textbooks brought out by the government and use them in the meantime,” N. Vijayan, general secretary, Federation of Matriculation Schools` Associations in Tamil Nadu said
