East Delhi Municipal Corporation students to get books by June 9

NEW DELHI: East Delhi Municipal Corporation has kept June 9 as the deadline to distribute among all students books procured from Delhi Bureau of Text Books. The civic body is planning to resume the academic session from June 10 onwards and has directed all the 300 EDMC-run schools to complete the book distribution exercise before that.
“Due to Covid restrictions, it was getting difficult to procure books from DBTB earlier.Now that all schools have got the supply, they have been asked to immediately distribute books among parents. Students who migrated with their parents and are yet to come back to Delhi will be given books on their return. The purpose of timely distribution of books is to ensure studies of children don’t get affected,” said EDMC mayor Nirmal Jain.
“Classes will be conducted on Google Meet and WhatsApp. Worksheets will be distributed to those who can’t access these facilities,” said a senior EDMC official.
The civic agency has also asked the schools to expedite online distribution of a cash subsidy of Rs 300 to all the students for writing material such as notebooks.
As part of an e-governance initiative, the education department has hosted its website as well as one of its schools at Mayur Vihar on the EDMC portal.
“The civic body has given a target to 300 schools to design and host their individual websites on the EDMC portal. It will help parents access all the relevant information without coming to schools,” said EDMC education committee chairman Romesh Gupta.