Telangana schools reopen without textbooks

Even though the private schools affiliated with the state government reopened on June 12, the textbooks are not yet available for the students. However, free textbooks have been released for the students in government schools while classes are yet to commence in private schools due to no availability of textbooks.

With the TS govt making mandatory rule for all private schools to use only government textbooks from Class I to X, the private schools are left with no other option that to wait for the government books to be available in the market.

For Class VII to X, few textbooks have been availed but for Classes I to VI textbooks are not yet available. Despite taking orders for printing and distribution of textbooks in May, the private publishers failed to deliver the books on time.

A bookshop owner in Esamia Bazar, Koti, K. Sreeram said that there are no stocks even with the huge demand for the textbooks as the schools have reopened and the private publishers may take more two more weeks to supply books. Director of Government Textbook Press, B. Sudhakar, said that the delay was caused due to change in syllabus in Telangana state but the private publishers have been directed to speed up the distribution of textbooks.