{"id":31403,"date":"2024-04-01T15:56:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T10:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=31403"},"modified":"2024-04-01T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T11:43:09","slug":"new-academic-session-begins-in-punjab-with-shortage-of-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/new-academic-session-begins-in-punjab-with-shortage-of-textbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"New academic session begins in Punjab with shortage of textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The new academic year commenced across Punjab on Monday, however, students across the province are compelled to attend school without necessary textbooks.<\/p>\n<p>Due to limited book production as a result of rising paper costs and budgetary constraints at the Punjab Textbook Board, about 48,000 schools in the province of Punjab are facing a shortage of free books.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this year, no school has received the required textbooks for the new academic year, leaving students to attend classes without their essential learning materials.<\/p>\n<p>Another problem that teachers in Punjab are facing is the hassle of having to go to warehouses to find books.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/cheating-in-matric-exams-exam-center-in-lahore-sold-to-cheaters-for-rs-80000\/\">Cheating in Matric exams: Exam Center in Lahore Sold to Cheaters for Rs. 80,000<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Punjab Textbook Board has attempted to publish and give free textbooks to Punjab schools, but timely delivery is still a problem.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, no school has yet implemented the new curriculum for the current academic year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The new academic year commenced across Punjab on Monday, however, students across the province are compelled to attend school without necessary textbooks. Due to limited book production as a result of rising paper costs and budgetary constraints at the Punjab Textbook Board, about 48,000 schools in the province of Punjab are facing a shortage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":31417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,9,21,2],"tags":[144,14228,14237],"class_list":["post-31403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","tag-lahore","tag-new-academic-session-punjab","tag-textbooks-shortage-in-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}