E-textbooks and needy students
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Habib's center-piece report on the matter in your issue of 23 April is another example of discrimination against the poor. In this case; poor students will suffer, who needs free textbooks; whereas the rich students can access it through web site! Despite the free access to the web site, one has to pay for having computer facilities, printer, and paper for printing. The statement that "Any one can download the contents for free and also read these on mobile phones"; is all meant for the better off. For the poor students, the good news was in the last line of the report; which stated: About 23.22 crore free text books were distributed among 2.22 crore primary and secondary students in the first week of January this year!
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