KOZHIKODE: The photostat business is having a gala time as the majority of Plus-One students are using photostat copies of the textbooks of their seniors in language classes. Only a few schools in the state have received language textbooks for the Plus-One classes though many schools have received other textbooks. The shops are selling the copies without any concern about copyright violation.
As the quarterly exams are likely to be held by the end of this month, the students are largely depending on the photostat copies of the textbooks available at book stores. Teachers also complain that the laxity of the state government in supplying the textbooks was to help the bookstores that sell the photostat copies at almost the same rate of the original textbooks.
“The shops have copies from the last year students and somehow they managed to take the printouts and sell them. The English textbook for the Plus- One students cost Rs 80, whereas the photostat copy costs Rs 70. The copiers are making a huge profit and the department has taken no steps to fix the issue,” said Mr Rajesh Jose, state secretary, Aided Higher Secondary School Teachers Association.
