Delays In Textbooks Provision Wasting Time Of Students In KP Schools.

PESHAWAR -- Much of the academic year of stuAdents is being wasted at schools as the authorities concerned have failed to provide books since the beginning of the session so far while it will also cost a huge fund to deliver the remaining books to the schools across the province.

Classes at both state and private schools resumed as the schools reAopened on August 15. However, the students at state-run schools are without textbooks reportedAly due to mismanagement and lack of coordination between the KP Education Department and KP Textbook Board.

'One reason behind the problem is that Education Department deAlayed their demand to the Textbook Board which in turn delayed the printing of the books,' said a source in the education department.

Each class in the schools have been provided two or three books only while the rest of the books are yet to be printed. This will also cause additional spending of huge funds on the transportation of the...