Udaypur - Despite a government policy of free textbooks to primary students, over 100,000 children in four districts of Sagarmatha zone don't have yet to receive theirs two months into the new academic session. Most students in Khotang, Okhaldhunga, Siraha and Udaypur are sharing or just doing without. The distributor, Sajha Prakashan's branch office in Lahan, blames the Curriculum Development Centre at Sanothimi for failing to send them the books. Rohit Pokhrel, the head of Sajha Prakashan in Lahan, said out of nearly 200,000 primary level students, only 73,000 thousand students in four districts have textbooks. (Nepalnews.com)