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Preface

The curriculum and curricular materials have been developed and revised on a
regular basis with the aim of making education purposeful, practical, relevant and
job-oriented. It is necessary to instill the feeling of nationalism, national integrity
and democratic spirit in students and equip them with morality, discipline and self-
reliance so as to develop in them social and personal skills as well as the basic
competencies of language, science, occupation, information and communication
technology, environment and health, and life skills. It is also necessary to enable
them to appreciate, preserve and promote arts and aesthetics, social norms and val-
ues and ideals. Moreover, in order to develop an equitable society, it is necessary
to inculcate students with respect for ethnicity, gender, disabilities, languages, re-
ligions, cultures and regional diversity. Likewise, education should also help them
to be well-informed of human rights and social norms and values so as to make
them capable of playing the role of responsible citizens. This textbook has been
developed in this form based on the Basic Education Curriculum, 2069 (Grade 8),
incorporating the feedback obtained from various schools, workshops and
seminars and interaction programmes attained by the teachers, students
and parents.

This textbook was translated and edited by Min Bahadur Achhami, Madhav Kumar
Shreshtha, Prem Prasad Paudel and Laxmi Dhital. In bringing out this text book in
this form, the contribution of the Executive Director of CDC Mr.Diwakar Dhungel,
Deputy Director Ms Sarala Paudel, Prof. Dr.Ramkrishna Maharjan, Dr.Chitra Ba-
hadur Budhathoki, Krishna Prasad Dhakal, Shyamkrishna Bista, Gokarna Thapa
and Punam Dangol is highly commendable.

Language of this book was edited by Chandra Kanta Bhusal and Madhu upadhaya.
Typing was done by Abhaya Shrestha. The layout design of the book was done by
Jayaram Kuikel. The illustration of the book was done by Sunil Ranjit and Gautam
Manandhar. CDC extends sincere thanks to all those who have contributed in the
development and revision of this text book.

Textbook is considered as an important tool of learning. Experienced teachers and
curios students can use various learning resources and tools to achieve the com-
petencies targeted by the curriculum. An attempt is made to make this textbook
activity oriented and interested as far as possible. The teachers, students and other
stakeholders are expected to make constructive comments and suggestions to make
this book a more useful learning material.
Government of Nepal
Ministry of Education
Curriculum Development Centre