Nagavci: Over 144 thousand applications for subsidy textbooks have been accepted

144,337 applications have been accepted through the e-Kosovo platform for the first six days since the system was opened for application for subsidisation of textbooks.

The incumbent Minister of Education, Arbury Nagavci, has said there have been no complaints so far. She has added that verifying applications by school co-ordinators is being conducted regularly.

“Brend within the first six days of the system's opening for subvention applications, via platform e-Kosovo, a total of 144,337 applications have been accepted. So far, 73064 applications have been verified, showing commitment and high efficiency in managing the process. The process is under way without obstacles, and until now no complaints have been accepted by parents, which testify to the functionality and transparency of the <x1 system, wrote on Facebook.

The parents' subsidies for buying textbooks last year cost the state nearly 20m euros.

Subvention methods began in 2023, with the ministry's assessment that this practice halts the abuse of the state budget. MASTUS has been distributing textbooks for primary school students for free since 2008.

But in 2023, Nagavci announced that it has changed the way the textbooks are distributed, due to the failure of the agreement with publishing houses for the supply of book schools, since, according to her, publishing houses have offered prices far higher than those they place in their libraries.

Misuses with textbooks also recorded an audience report ten years ago, where it was said that a host of books worth 500 thousand euros were completed in basements of schools.

For abuses in the past, but also for subsidising the purchase of textbooks, in early April the Parliament established the investigative commission. But this commission passed its mandate without having managed to invert all persons involved./Periscopi/