The National Textbook Festival will be celebrated at all primary and secondary level educational institutions across the country (Jan 1).
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid will formally inaugurate the textbook distribution festival at 9am at Azimpur Govt. Girls’ School and College as part of the nationwide programme.
As many as 352,197,882 free textbooks would be distributed among 42,619,865 primary and secondary level students across the country in the academic year 2019.
“All preparations for distribution of free textbooks have been completed….. We have been able to send textbooks to all schools across the country,” said National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) chairman Prof Narayan Chandra Saha.
The government distributed 354,290,162 textbooks among 43,706,895 pre-primary, primary, secondary, ebtedayee and SSC level students last year, Narayan said adding, “We have printed these textbooks on time by maintaining its standard…. All students from primary and secondary levels will get textbooks for free on the first day of the New Year.
The government distributed 2.61 billion textbooks for free among the pre-primary, primary, secondary, ebtedayee and SSC level students in the last nine academic years, news agency BSS quoted NCTB Chairman.
Distribution of free textbook started since 2010 at both primary and secondary level, he said adding 2,608,591,290 copies of textbooks were distributed from 2010 to 2018, he added.