Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2020-03-18

Awarding of 45% from the printing of School Text Books distributed free of charge for the year 2021 by the Educational Publications Department to the State Printing Corporation

- The printing of a part of school text books in the year 2018 and 2019 has been vested directly with the State Printing Corporation outside the open tender procedure. Accordingly, taking into consideration the capacity of the Corporation and its past performance, the proposal made by the Minister of Education to award the contract for printing a part of the school text books out of the total of text books required for the year 2021 to the State Printing Corporation outside the Open tender Procedure, was approved by the Cabinet.