Chandigarh, April 25, 2013: The Punjab Government today issued a show cause notice to three firms regarding the supply of substandard of practical copies and asked them to submit their replies in seven days.
According to a spokesman of the Education department strict action would be initiated after receiving the replies from the concerned firms.
He further informed that Education department had given the approval to provide the quality practical copies on prescribed rates to the students of government schools from 1-9-2012 to 31-08-2013, but it came to the notice that copies provided to the students were substandard both from the technical and printing aspects. He said that the department had constituted three-member committee to look into the whole matter and it came to the conclusion that the practical copies were substandard.