Bengaluru: The drought situation in the State has also hit the printing of textbooks.
Primary and Secondary Education Minister Tanveer Sait informed the House yesterday that the drought conditions in the State had also an effect on printing of textbooks. It has not been possible to supply textbooks to the Government schools on time. Even in private schools, the selling of textbooks has been stopped. They have still not bought it from us. However, the Government schools are not facing as much problems, he said. He was replying to a question from Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri during Zero Hour. He said that due to water shortage, three major textbook printing presses are closed. Due to shortage of paper, the printing also got delayed.
