Book Banks to be established for deserving children.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) has decided to set up book banks in 424 government run educational institutes. Books from these book banks will be provided free of cost to the students from Prep to metric classes who are studying in informal schools and in the educational institutions being run by philanthropists . Books would be collected from students who have appeared in metric exams as well. Notification has been sent to area education officers by Director Academics FDE Sadia Adnan and the copy has also been sent to DG FDE.

As per the notification, free books are being distributed to the students of FDE institutions according to the Article 25(A) but students from the schools being run by philanthropists and under informal program stand deprived of this facility...