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Kolkata, December 11
The West Bengal School Education Department may notify the revised height of Mount Everest in its portal only if any competent authority in the country endorses the announcement made by Nepal and China that the present height of the world s highest peak is now 8,848.86 metres, an official said.
The text books which have already been printed and to be distributed in January mentions the height of Mt Everest as 8,848 metres, as known for over 60 years, and there is no communication from any competent authority in the country as yet for revising the figure, chairman of Syllabus Committee Aveek Majumder said.