The government has distributed nearly 3 billion free textbooks among pre-primary and secondary school students in a decade, the parliament was told on Tuesday.
“The government distributed over 2,950,120,784 textbooks among pre-primary, primary, ibtedayee, secondary, dakhil, dakhil [vocational] and SSC [vocational] students free of cost from 2010 to 2019,” Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni said.
Replying to a query from treasury bench MP M Abdul Latif, the minister also said that the government has distributed around 10.7 million instruction modules among teachers from 2010 to 2019.
"The government has included pre-primary students under the free textbook program from the 2014 academic year," she further informed the House.