The government spends about Rs. 3,500 million annually for providing free school textbooks and the Department of Educational Publications has implemented a program to improve the reuse of textbooks it has been observed that a certain book could not be used for more than three (03) years. Therefore, about 70% of textbooks have to be reprinted annually.

Accordingly, the minister in his Cabinet Memorandum sought the approval to print the three Geography textbooks for grade 07 and selected Teachers’ Instruction Manuals of Grade 2 and 8 for 2017 as the pilot project.