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School textbooks: No impact from rising print costs 

12 Mar 2022

  • Education Ministry evaluating printer’s request for relief
ByUwin Lugoda The recent price hike in printing material will not impact the issuing of textbooks to State-run schools, The Sunday Morning learns. According to the Education Ministry, the orders for new textbooks for the coming academic year were picked up prior to the price hike, leaving the order unimpacted. The recent rise in printing costs did not impact the issuing of textbooks since we had already given the order and it had been accepted by the printers,” said Department of Educational Publications Commissioner General P.N. Ilapperuma. He stated that the books for this year and the next would be issued without any reduction in the quantities of textbooks. However, Ilapperuma stated that the printers had been impacted and had since requested some relief from the Government.  He stated that the Department had plans to put forward the request for an in-house committee that would make recommendations. “We plan to put this forward to a committee and get a recommendation on what sort of relief we can give the printers since there is a base to their claim. We will look at our procurement procedures and consider their claim and if relief can be given we will give it,” said Ilapperuma. The price hike in printing was first brought up on 10 February by writer Kamal Perera of Mass Guiding Artists, a collective affiliated with the opposition National People’s Power (NPP). Perera informed the media that the printing price hike was due to the price hikes and shortages in imported paper and printing materials. He stated that in three months the price of a ream of paper had increased by Rs. 900.    

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