By A Staff Reporter

Kathmandu, Oct. 19: Students of grade one to eight will have a chance to study multi-colour textbooks from the next academic session. The Curriculum Development Center (CDC), a body under the Ministry of Education Science and Technology, has been developing colourful textbooks.
The preparation to introduce the colourful textbooks up to grade eight is at the final stage. The CDC will provide computer-ready copy to Janak Education Materials Centre for printing copy soon after Tihar, Dr. Lekhnath Poudel, general director of CDC, said.
The government had distributed colourful textbooks from grade one to grade three four years ago and from grade four and five two years ago. From the next Baisakh, students of grade six, seven and eight could read multi-coloured textbooks.
The government has implemented the decision of multi-colour textbooks up to grade eight according to a decision made during the budget announcement.
The government decided to launch colourful textbooks with an expectation that students may understand easily from colourful textbooks.
Mahesh Prasad Timilsina, General Director of JEMC, said currently the JEMC has been printing grade nine and grade ten textbooks and then the JEMC will start printing colourful textbooks for grade six to grade eight.
The textbooks of grade nine and ten are being printed in black and white.
Along with the use of multi-colour in printing from this time, the JEMC has been using woodless paper. The paper looks clean and dustless in comparison to other paper, Timilsina said.
According to JEMC, this year the center has been going to print around 8,000,000 textbooks of grade nine and 10 and about 10,000,000 textbooks of grade six to grade eight.