In a bid to save trees, all state-run schools in Tamil Nadu are set to start ¡®book banks¡¯. The school education department ordered all the government schools to start collecting books from the students passing out the academic year.
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The books will be distributed to students in the upcoming academic session. According to the Times of India, Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational services Corporation gets around 40,000 tonnes of paper to print 8 crore textbooks and around 8 lakh trees are cut every year for the same.
The move is expected to save around 2 lakh trees every year and the initiative was introduced as per the order of National Green Tribunal.
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A similar initiative was taken by the Delhi government, last year. The state¡¯s education department asked its schools to collect old books of students of all classes and make book banks. The books were then provided to the underprivileged kids through the school management.??