A glossy front cover, superior quality printing on 80 G.S.M paper, multi-coloured fonts, with a fair share of exercises, activities and explanations. The much-awaited ‘Samacheer Kalvi' textbooks for Classes I and VI are a breezy read. The books were sent from the central godowns to reach the five regional centres in the State to be despatched by the postal department. It would reach the schools any day from now.
“The exercise to dispatch the books has started and we are confident that it would reach schools before the end of the month,” said Korlapati Satyagopal, Chairman and Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Textbook Corporation.
Addressing mediapersons here on Monday, he said that about 1.16 crore books are being printed for Equitable Standard School Education (‘Samacheer Kalvi') alone, with 81.50 lakh books for distribution to government and government-aided schools. According to the department, the requirement for Matriculation and Anglo-Indian schools is around 33 lakh books.
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