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However, many parents pay for textbooks for their schoolchildren in installments from April and May. If they will get them for free, what will happen to the money they have already given, the most common question of our citizens is to this news published yesterday.

Deputy Mayor Goran Vesić explained for “Blic” that the City buys textbooks for Serbian language, mathematics, the world around us and a foreign language for first and second grade students, while parents buy workbooks themselves.

– Parents will practically receive a subsidy in the amount of around 5,900 dinars, but since the prices of textbooks are not the same for all publishers, the total amount of textbook sets will be that much lower. So, if the parent paid 7,500 sets, 5,900 dinars will be returned to him, while the rest will be used to buy worksheets – Vesić said for Blic.

However, many parents wonder what about the money they have already paid for the books, in part or in full. We asked the deputy mayor if the money would be refunded to the parents, given that the City pays the money for the books directly to the publishers.

– If the parents have already paid the publishers for the books, the publishers will return the money with which the textbooks were paid, while they will keep the amounts with which the workbooks will be paid – Vesić said for “Blic”.

But, as could be heard at yesterday’s presentation, bookstores and publishers where parents bought books for the next school year will be left with the choice of whether to return the money to the parents, or offer them a voucher to buy some other editions.

How the problem of refunding the money will be concretely solved remains to be seen, and, as the deputy mayor says, it is also a matter of “agreement between parents and publishers”.

– A parent can ask for money back, or, for example, that money can be redirected for the purchase of textbooks for a younger child – this will be agreed with the publishers – claims Vesić.

Let us remind you, for every student from the third to the sixth grade, the City provided a tablet and digital textbooks, while parents will buy workbooks in paper form.

– Workbooks are not included in this program at the moment – said Vesić.

The Municipality of Prishtina has allocated 70 thousand euros for the supply of libraries with books for this year.

The Director of Culture in the Municipality of Prishtina, Adrian Berisha said in the show “038” that the library “Hivzi Sylejmani” will be supplied with books and that for this supply a public call is expected for the citizens in order to receive suggestions from them that for what books the library needs.

We will supply books, this year we have allocated a sum of 70 thousand euros, we will supply books to the library “Hivzi Sylejmani”, where this time we will be even more transparent and we will make a public call for citizens to “They suggest us what books to buy for this library, so that citizens, students, children can find them in this library,” said Berisha.

He also said that some contracts have been signed that are expected to be implemented during this year such as: multifunctional center with a focus on the Library in Kodra e Trimave, construction of InfoPoint at Zahir Pajaziti Square where the Ministry of Economic Development is located, contracts for art in public space and renovation of spaces of subordinate institutions.

Meanwhile, regarding the cultural activities for June 1, the International Children’s Day, Berisha said that although they have several projects, it is still unknown what will happen until then due to the situation with the pandemic.