DHAKA, Oct 9, 2018 (BSS)- Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid today
said the government will distribute about 35 crore textbooks free of cost
among primary and secondary level students next year.
“Printing works of these textbooks have already been completed. We’ve
reached around 11 crore textbooks at different educational institutions and
the remaining will be sent by December 14 this year,” he told reporters after
visiting different printing presses in city’s Matail.
The education minister said the free textbooks will be distributed
around 35 crore pre-primary, primary and secondary level students, five small
anthropological group and visually challenged students across the country.
He said over 4 crore schoolchildren across the country will celebrate
the Textbook Festival receiving books free of cost for their new classes on
the first day of the new year.
“This (festival) is the outcome of our (government’s) sincere commitment
to reaching the free textbooks to students on the first day of the year,”
Nahid said.
About the government’s historic decision of textbook distribution, Nahid
said this helps cut the rate school dropout and increase the number of
students at primary and secondary levels.
Secondary and Higher Education Division Additional Secretary Nazmul Haque
Khan, National Curriculum and Textbook Board Chairman Prof Naryan Chandra
Shaha and its Member Dr Mia Enamul Haque Siddique accompanied the minister
during his visit.