The Game Of Commission   Between Schools & Booksellers

As the new school session began, there was hustle and bustle among the parents to buy their kids new books. They were seen here and there with the book-lists given by the schools to complete the prescribed set. But it is really astonishing to see that the textbook prescription slip comes with missing details. The slip seems to have been written in highly coded language so that the parents would not go to bookstalls other than the school authority wants them to. The school mentions only the name and address of the bookstore and the grade concerned. As they pass the note to the bookseller, the already packaged set is handed over to them. If they customarily asked for certain amount of concession and the salesperson would reply that the discount they were supposed to get had already gone in commission to the school authority. One who pays should have been entitled to any deduction, but is there any body to check this kind of white cheating?

Manish Baskota
Nayabazar, Kathmandu