Srinagar, Nov 13: The recent instructions issued by the education minister, Sakina Itoo, regarding the illegal selling of textbooks by private schools through different agencies have found no takers, as the parents said that waking up to the issue now was “crying over spilt milk.”

On Wednesday, the Minister for Education, Sakina Itoo, chaired a review meeting of the School Education Department (SED) across the Kashmir division.

During the meeting, the education minister issued strict instructions to Chief Education Officers (CEOs) to check “unregulated selling” of school textbooks by private schools through various agencies at exorbitant rates.

However, the stakeholders sharply reacted to the instructions and said the government was trying to fool the parents by responding to the issue

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