Srilanka, July 3 -- The Ministry of Education has introduced a series of new technological measures aimed at improving the procurement, warehouse management, distribution, and inventory control of school textbooks.



The new initiatives were revealed during a recent meeting of the parliamentary Committee on Public Accounts (COPA), which reviewed the Auditor General's reports for 2021 and 2024 on the Department of Educational Publications, along with its current performance.



Officials informed the committee that, from 2024, a new computerized data management system has been introduced to obtain real-time information from all schools on student enrolment, existing textbook stocks, and reusable textbooks.



The Ministry has also lau...