Govt school students demand free textbooks

District education officers promises distribution after Eid

ATTOCK: Students studying in district government schools have demanded of the authorities to issue them free textbooks which they are supposed to get after promotion to new classes every year.

The students made this demand while speaking to the media on Saturday.

In view of the Punjab School Education Department's decision to promote all students from KG to eighth class along with the announcement that students of class nine have also been promoted then there is no reason to delay issuance of textbooks.

They said that in the prevailing situation when the schools have been closed for an indefinite period because of Covid 19 any further delay would waste their precious time.

They demanded that education authorities must make plans in this context and issue books to students accordingly.

Attock District Education Authority CEO Javed Iqbal when contacted said that this a very genuine demand of the students and the authorities are also concerned about it.

He said that in this context a detailed meeting was held with Attock Deputy Commissioner and it has been decided that books will be issued to students after Eidul Fitr. Replying to a question he said that parents of students will come to school to receive books and no student will be allowed to visit the school.

It is worth mentioning that more than 1,250 government schools are functional in the Attock district where more than 200,000 students studying.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 17^th, 2020.