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The prices of the Sindh Textbook Board’s books have nearly doubled, it came out on Thursday after the board’s secretary announced that the reason for it is the hike in publishing prices.
According to the secretary, the wages of the labourers printing these books have been increased after they refused to perform their duties without a pay rise.
“Even the prices of raw material used in publishing these books has increased by 100 per cent,” he said while rejecting reports of shortage of any books in the market.
“We have so far provided over 20.8 million books of classes one to matric to sellers,” he said.
