Education Dept distributes books among needy pupils

Tribune news service

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Amritsar, May 20

To reach out to needy students, the district Education Department has started distributing books to primary classes in the district. The department has assigned staff to distribute books for free to students, a majority of whom belong to poor families.

The department has distributed 55,338 books to students of 829 schools in 15 blocks so far. “We have a total of 72,791 students of Classes I to V in the district and we have already distributed more than 55,000 books. The remaining students will receive books in the coming days. Our teachers are going door to door to distribute books by maintaining social distance and wearing masks for safety,” said Rekha Mahajan, Deputy DEO.

The department had received 4,16, 737 books from the PSEB as per the schedule and the distribution exercise has been undertaken to ease the burden of parents to buy books for the new session. “Most of the students belong to poor families facing financial difficulties due to the lockdown. So, the department has reached out to them with study material and books as we don’t want students to miss out on education,” Mahajan said.