Staff Reporter :
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seized at least 5,653 copies of free textbooks of high school students from the city’s Mohammadpur area on Tuesday morning, the elite force official sources said.
RAB’s Legal and Media Wing Director Mufti Mahmud Khan said that a team of RAB-2 raided Islamia Book Library on
Noorjahan Road around 11:00am and recovered 4,618 textbooks. Later, the law enforcing agencies also moved into a book shop recovered 1,035 more textbooks.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally inaugurated the celebration attended by a good number of students of different classes in the Gono Bhaban at 9:00am yesterday, he said.
More than four crore primary and secondary school students will get new textbooks in the morning of January, 2015 as the government has made all preparations to distribute around 32 crore copies of free textbooks, sources said.
The government has printed around 32.63 crore copies of textbooks for 4.44 crore students of primary and secondary schools, Ebtedayee and Dakhil madrasas and technical institutions, they added.
In 2009, the government decided to distribute textbooks free of cost in the wake of textbook crisis recurring every year. It has been distributing books among primary and secondary students since 2010, another sources said.
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seized at least 5,653 copies of free textbooks of high school students from the city’s Mohammadpur area on Tuesday morning, the elite force official sources said.
RAB’s Legal and Media Wing Director Mufti Mahmud Khan said that a team of RAB-2 raided Islamia Book Library on
Noorjahan Road around 11:00am and recovered 4,618 textbooks. Later, the law enforcing agencies also moved into a book shop recovered 1,035 more textbooks.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally inaugurated the celebration attended by a good number of students of different classes in the Gono Bhaban at 9:00am yesterday, he said.
More than four crore primary and secondary school students will get new textbooks in the morning of January, 2015 as the government has made all preparations to distribute around 32 crore copies of free textbooks, sources said.
The government has printed around 32.63 crore copies of textbooks for 4.44 crore students of primary and secondary schools, Ebtedayee and Dakhil madrasas and technical institutions, they added.
In 2009, the government decided to distribute textbooks free of cost in the wake of textbook crisis recurring every year. It has been distributing books among primary and secondary students since 2010, another sources said.
