CHENNAI: Nearly every week after maximum private faculties reopened, the government, in spite of everything, started the sale of made over Class 11 textbooks. But there have been giant queues of oldsters and scholars, because the books had been available best at DPI premises in Numngambakkam and Anna Centenary Library in Kotturpuram in Chennai.
Schools in different districts nonetheless maintain categories by taking down printouts of first few chapters from on-line model of these textbooks uploaded in State Council for Educational Research and Training (SCERT) web site. Cost of the new textbooks has left many parents stunned.
"There has been an increase in price of textbooks by 20-30% when compared to the previous year," said D Jayanth, one of the vital oldsters status on the lengthy queue in DPI Nungambakkam. Mathematics books had been the most expensive. On a median, the price of the books varied from Rs 130 to 180 in step with copy.
Even prior to the permitted copies of the textbooks could succeed in the markets, guides had been out. These guides had been sold by leading private publishing properties throughout Tamil Nadu. Officials from the Tamil Nadu Textbook Corporation, company chargeable for printing and selling those books, attributed the delay to printing of textbooks at Hyderabad.
As on Monday, printing of textbooks for vocational scholars and historical past books were not complete and those scholars have to look ahead to another weak or so. Till then, they've to sit idle of their classrooms. The govt had previous refused to postpone reopening of schools by every week's time mentioning that they needed additional time and effort to finish portions within the new textbooks.
The govt should believe the sensible difficulties whilst settling on a majority of these issues, said S Arumainathan, president of the Tamil Nadu Students Parents Welfare Association. "They could have completed distribution of textbooks before reopening the schools. What is the point in making them sit idle at schools?"
However, oldsters and private matriculation scholars, who managed to get copies of the much-awaited new textbooks on day one had been enthralled to see the improved features like QR codes and Information Communication Technology (ICT) corners.
Many had been noticed testing those QR codes and e-links proper after buying them on the sales counters.
"Every book has the list of possible undergraduate, postgraduate courses a student can study after completing Class 12. This section, which explains about job and research opportunities too, was the most impressive thing about the new textbooks," said J Karthick, a mother or father from Arumbakkam.
As a long way as free copies are concerned, textbook company claims to have finished distribution of 1.1 crore copies to all govt and aided school scholars in Tamil Nadu.
Schools in different districts nonetheless maintain categories by taking down printouts of first few chapters from on-line model of these textbooks uploaded in State Council for Educational Research and Training (SCERT) web site. Cost of the new textbooks has left many parents stunned.
"There has been an increase in price of textbooks by 20-30% when compared to the previous year," said D Jayanth, one of the vital oldsters status on the lengthy queue in DPI Nungambakkam. Mathematics books had been the most expensive. On a median, the price of the books varied from Rs 130 to 180 in step with copy.
Even prior to the permitted copies of the textbooks could succeed in the markets, guides had been out. These guides had been sold by leading private publishing properties throughout Tamil Nadu. Officials from the Tamil Nadu Textbook Corporation, company chargeable for printing and selling those books, attributed the delay to printing of textbooks at Hyderabad.
As on Monday, printing of textbooks for vocational scholars and historical past books were not complete and those scholars have to look ahead to another weak or so. Till then, they've to sit idle of their classrooms. The govt had previous refused to postpone reopening of schools by every week's time mentioning that they needed additional time and effort to finish portions within the new textbooks.
The govt should believe the sensible difficulties whilst settling on a majority of these issues, said S Arumainathan, president of the Tamil Nadu Students Parents Welfare Association. "They could have completed distribution of textbooks before reopening the schools. What is the point in making them sit idle at schools?"
However, oldsters and private matriculation scholars, who managed to get copies of the much-awaited new textbooks on day one had been enthralled to see the improved features like QR codes and Information Communication Technology (ICT) corners.
Many had been noticed testing those QR codes and e-links proper after buying them on the sales counters.
"Every book has the list of possible undergraduate, postgraduate courses a student can study after completing Class 12. This section, which explains about job and research opportunities too, was the most impressive thing about the new textbooks," said J Karthick, a mother or father from Arumbakkam.
As a long way as free copies are concerned, textbook company claims to have finished distribution of 1.1 crore copies to all govt and aided school scholars in Tamil Nadu.
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