FDE establishes Book Bank in its schools to ensure providing free books to deserving students.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) has launched an initiative of establishing 'Book Bank' in its 424 public sectors schools of the Islamabad Capital Territory with an aim to provide free curriculum books to the deserving students from Prep to Matric.

The sources told reporter on Friday, under the new scheme the old books of the male and female students who will appear in the annual examinations, to be taken and saved in the Book Bank.

They said that these books will be given to the hundreds of deserving children studying in the informal schools and public sector educational institutions being run with the support of philanthropists.

They said in this regard a circular from the Director Academics FDE had been sent to all Area Education Officers (AEOs) for establishing book bank in the schools of their respective areas.

The federal government under the Article 25 A (which related to providing free education to each and every child till class 10th), was providing free education by awarding free books to the students of public schools of ICT, they added.

However, the sources revealed that a number of children enrolled in the informal schools and in those public sector educational institutions being run by the philanthropists were deprived of the facility of getting free books.

They further said that due to this...