Rs. 3,000 m worth textbooks sent

Dharma Sri Abeyratne

[ For our, students]

* Year 2010 School textbook requirement is 35 m

* Book distribution ceremony on December 9

* Over two million books sent to North

School textbooks worth Rs. 3,000 million for the next year have already been dispatched to Zonal and Divisional Education offices throughout the country, Education Publications Commissioner W.M.N.J. Pushpakumara said.

It has been estimated that school textbooks requirement for 2010 is 35 million and these books have already been stored in zonal and divisional education offices.

The book distribution National ceremony will be held on December 9 at Wembly Vidyalaya, Jaffna under the patronage of Education Minister Susil Premjayanth. More than two million textbooks have been sent to North for the next year, he added.

In keeping with the concept of Equal Education for All, the Government has allocated funds on time to print school textbooks. The Education Ministry has ensured that every single student will receive textbooks at the beginning of the first school term of 2010.