Govt schools to open from Monday

The Ministry of Education and Sports has directed the government and community schools to resume classes from Monday.The Ministry had earlier directed them to close down for two weeks till mid-June due to shortage of textbooks.However, under pressure from guardians and schools, the Ministry has withdrawn its decision.Parents and students of over 25000 government and community schools had become agitated with the government decision and some of them had started flouting the decision by resuming classes from Sunday. The Ministry has stated that since the availability of textbooks has improved in the market, it has decided to resume classes. Janak Education Materials Center (JEMC), which prints the textbooks, has said that of the required 17.5 million copies of textbooks, it has printed 10 million copies till now. “We can complete the printing within a week,” said Bimal Aryal, a director at the Center. As the JEMC was engaged in printing of ballot papers for the Constituent Assembly election, it was unable to print textbooks on time this year, say officials.