Book banks will be established in schools and colleges: Dr Dhan Singh Rawat
By Our Staff Reporter
Dehradun, 11 July: Under the chairmanship of School Education Minister Dr Dhan Singh Rawat, a meeting of higher education and school education department officials was held in the secretariat auditorium, on Tuesday, in which Chief Secretary SS Sandhu was also present.
In view of the uneven geographical conditions of the state, it was decided to set up book banks in all government schools to make books available before the academic session.
Dr Rawat said that there are often complaints about the non-availability of textbooks in schools in far-flung areas, in view of which a book bank of textbooks from classes 1st to 12th has been set up in all schools for next year. This will be done so that the students can take their textbooks from the book bank established in the schools as soon as the new session starts. Instructions were also given to the departmental officers to contact NCERT Delhi and enter into an agreement for the timely publication of textbooks.

Chief Secretary Sandhu, Secretary Higher Education and Personnel Shailesh Bagoli, Secretary Justice Narendra Dutt, Secretary School Education Ravinath Raman, Director General School Education Banshidhar Tiwari, Additional Secretary Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Arya, Additional Secretary Finance Ganga Prasad, Amita Joshi and other departmental officers were present.