Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann set for Bhavnagar, Bharuch campaign tour for AAP on April 16-17
This move comes as the AAP and Congress navigate a recent seat-sharing agreement within the INDIA bloc.
Taking a major decision in view of the upcoming academic session, the Punjab government has decided to make school text books available online from 1 April.
After taking a meeting with the officers of Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) on Saturday, the school education and higher education minister, Aruna Chaudhary disclosed that the textbooks can be read online at PSEB's website.
She said that 107 out of 350 textbooks have been made available at bard's website. As per the new initiative, the visitors of the website can find the online textbooks after clicking at book folder's e-books link to read the textbooks.
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The minister further said that 22 more text books will be made available online till 15 April while 17 other such books will be
uploaded on the board's website till 17 May. Adding to this, 84 books have been adopted from the National Council of Educational Research and Teaching (NCERT) considering the national level curriculum.
"These books will be printed according to the necessity and feasibility of the board. The orders have been passed to upload these
books after getting NCERT's approval," said the minister.
She further said that they were into process to formulate such similar programs in consultation with the chief minister (CM) Captain Amarinder Singh.
The minister said that if there is any need of changes in 350 books from class I to XII, it will be done on an immediate basis to further
print the text books. This will help the students get books before the commencement of the academic session.
The books should be designed in such a manner so that they can help the students to develop their mental level," she added.
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