Sir which classes books will be change On 29 Mar 2017 2:35 p.m., "Gurumurthy K" <itfc.stfk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear teachers, > > If the text book supply to the schools gets delayed next year, as the > article below suggests, what options do we have to still plan our classroom > teaching in an effective manner? Any suggestions or comments? > > Is collecting text books from current batch students and giving them to > next year's students for a class a useful possibility? Even if the revised > text books are (little or lot) different? > > Also wishing all of you and all your students 'All the best' for the 2017 > SSLC examinations .... (Just a reminder, please do not share copies of the > board question papers in the STF groups or any mobile phone groups, I think > this is prohibited by the department) .... > > regards, > Guru > > Source - http://www.deccanherald.com/content/603689/paper-shortage- > delays-textbook-printing.html > > Paper shortage delays textbook printing > Meghana Choukkar Bengaluru, March 29, 2017, DHNS > > > Students of state board schools in Karnataka may have to wait for at least > two months for their textbooks this year. Printers have run into a shortage > of paper, and complain the government took too long to give them work > orders. In all, 511 titles have to be printed, adding up to nearly six > crore books. Anil Hosakoppa, one of those chosen by the government, has to > print 1.37 crore books. He has managed to print only about 30% of it so far. > > “I need 3,300 tonnes of paper to complete the order. I have used up the > 400 tonnes I had already procured. For 40 days, work has remained stalled > for want of paper,” he said. The tender document lays down that printers > must use A grade, 60 GSM paper, but water-starved mills in Tamil Nadu and > Andhra Pradesh are in no position to meet the demand. Every year, Hosakoppa > says, paper prices go up by at least Rs 10,000 in the printing season, and > touch Rs 50,000 a tonne. “This year, even if we pay Rs 70,000 to Rs 80,000, > we are not sure we will get supplies,” he said. He has placed orders at > multiple mills and hopes to get enough supplies in two months, after which > he expects to take 100 to 120 days to print the textbooks. The government > took longer than usual to call for tenders and issue work orders, another > printer said. > > “Every year, the tender notification is given in October and by December, > the work orders are issued. But this year, the department called for > tenders several times saying the rates quoted were too high. This delayed > the process by 45 to 60 days, and paper prices went up further,” he > explained. > > By his reckoning, the exercise did not save the government any money. The > second printer has to deliver 1.3 crore books. “If the work order had been > issued in December, the textbooks would have been ready in time,” he said. > > ‘A bit of an issue’ > Ajay Seth, Principal Secretary, Primary and Secondary Education, said, > “Paper supply is a bit of an issue and we are trying to help the printers > obtain supply. The Department of Printing, Stationery and Publications has > spoken to a mill in Tamil Nadu and they have agreed to supply 5,000 tonnes > of paper.” > > He said the government had given orders for most of the 86 packages by > February. “Only seven or eight were given in March. Retendering was done > three times because printers were quoting prices 30 to 35% more than last > year,” he told DH. > > No water to produce paper > A source at Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd, a major supplier of paper > to mills in Karnataka, confirmed the mill had shut down one of its three > machines. “To produce one tonne of paper, we need between 1.3 to 1.4 lakh > litres of water. Because of severe shortage, the water is being diverted > for drinking,” the source said. Though units such as the West Coast Paper > Mills in Dandeli (Karnataka) are not so water-starved, their production > capacity isn’t enough to make up for the Tamil Nadu shortfall, the source > explained. > > > IT for Change, Bengaluru > www.ITforChange.net > > -- > ----------- > 1.ವಿಷಯ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರ ವೇದಿಕೆಗೆ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸಲು ಈ ಅರ್ಜಿಯನ್ನು ತುಂಬಿರಿ. > - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevqRdFngjbDtOF8YxgeXeL > 8xF62rdXuLpGJIhK6qzMaJ_Dcw/viewform > 2. ಇಮೇಲ್ ಕಳುಹಿಸುವಾಗ ಗಮನಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಕೆಲವು ಮಾರ್ಗಸೂಚಿಗಳನ್ನು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ನೋಡಿ. > -http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/index.php/ವಿಷಯಶಿಕ್ > ಷಕರವೇದಿಕೆ_ಸದಸ್ಯರ_ಇಮೇಲ್_ಮಾರ್ಗಸೂಚಿ > 3. ಐ.ಸಿ.ಟಿ ಸಾಕ್ಷರತೆ ಬಗೆಗೆ ಯಾವುದೇ ರೀತಿಯ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳಿದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಪುಟಕ್ಕೆ ಭೇಟಿ > ನೀಡಿ - > http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Portal:ICT_Literacy > 4.ನೀವು ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಬಳಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದೀರಾ ? ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ > ತಿಳಿಯಲು -http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/ > Public_Software > ----------- > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "EnglishSTF" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to englishstf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to englishstf@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- ----------- 1.ವಿಷಯ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರ ವೇದಿಕೆಗೆ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸಲು ಈ ಅರ್ಜಿಯನ್ನು ತುಂಬಿರಿ. - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevqRdFngjbDtOF8YxgeXeL8xF62rdXuLpGJIhK6qzMaJ_Dcw/viewform 2. ಇಮೇಲ್ ಕಳುಹಿಸುವಾಗ ಗಮನಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಕೆಲವು ಮಾರ್ಗಸೂಚಿಗಳನ್ನು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ನೋಡಿ. -http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/index.php/ವಿಷಯಶಿಕ್ಷಕರವೇದಿಕೆ_ಸದಸ್ಯರ_ಇಮೇಲ್_ಮಾರ್ಗಸೂಚಿ 3. ಐ.ಸಿ.ಟಿ ಸಾಕ್ಷರತೆ ಬಗೆಗೆ ಯಾವುದೇ ರೀತಿಯ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳಿದ್ದಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಪುಟಕ್ಕೆ ಭೇಟಿ ನೀಡಿ - http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Portal:ICT_Literacy 4.ನೀವು ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಬಳಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದೀರಾ ? ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ತಿಳಿಯಲು -http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Public_Software ----------- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "EnglishSTF" group. 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