Sylhet Bureau :
Sales of banned notes and guidebooks are going on unhindered at all bookstores in Sylhet city due to lack of administrative monitoring. Guardians of the primary and secondary level students have complained that school teachers encourage students to buy these illegal notes and guidebooks to get good marks in exams. On the other hand, book sellers said that they sell substandard academic books because of such books have high demand in the market.
D H Mamun, a guardian who bought a guidebook for class VIII at Tk 700 from Zindabazar, told that he had to buy the book to keep repeated request by his brother Joynal.
Saiful Alam, owner of a bookstall in the city’s Kudratullah Market said some unscrupulous Dhaka-based publishers supply the banned note and guide books to the local booksellers for making a brisk business. He alleged that in excuse of bribing lawmen for unhindered sale of the banned books, the publishers are fixing prices several times higher than the reasonable prices of the books. The shopkeepers at different book markets in the city, including Zindabazar, Bandarbazar, Puran Lane, Jallarpar, Taltala, Dakkhin Surma, Tilagar and Ambarkhana, are selling the banned books. ‘The bookstall owners need not maintain a minimum secrecy about the sale in absence of administrative supervision over the market,’ a school teacher Kabir Ahmed said.
The divisional secondary education deputy director told that he already asked the district education officers for conducting drive against the guidebook sellers.
Sylhet district secondary education officer Anil Krishna Mazumdar, however, expressed his disappointment that notebook selling would not be stopped until publishing of such book is stopped.
Sirazul Islam, Sylhet district president of Bangladesh Book Publishers and Sellers’ Association, said, ‘The authorities concerned should stop printing and supply of these kinds of books before taking action against sellers,
‘Sylhet Education board Chairman Professor Md. Mojidul Islam said they were trying to get the students rid of dependence on notebooks through preparing diverse question papers of the examinations. ‘Students would study textbooks properly instead of guidebooks.
Sales of banned notes and guidebooks are going on unhindered at all bookstores in Sylhet city due to lack of administrative monitoring. Guardians of the primary and secondary level students have complained that school teachers encourage students to buy these illegal notes and guidebooks to get good marks in exams. On the other hand, book sellers said that they sell substandard academic books because of such books have high demand in the market.
D H Mamun, a guardian who bought a guidebook for class VIII at Tk 700 from Zindabazar, told that he had to buy the book to keep repeated request by his brother Joynal.
Saiful Alam, owner of a bookstall in the city’s Kudratullah Market said some unscrupulous Dhaka-based publishers supply the banned note and guide books to the local booksellers for making a brisk business. He alleged that in excuse of bribing lawmen for unhindered sale of the banned books, the publishers are fixing prices several times higher than the reasonable prices of the books. The shopkeepers at different book markets in the city, including Zindabazar, Bandarbazar, Puran Lane, Jallarpar, Taltala, Dakkhin Surma, Tilagar and Ambarkhana, are selling the banned books. ‘The bookstall owners need not maintain a minimum secrecy about the sale in absence of administrative supervision over the market,’ a school teacher Kabir Ahmed said.
The divisional secondary education deputy director told that he already asked the district education officers for conducting drive against the guidebook sellers.
Sylhet district secondary education officer Anil Krishna Mazumdar, however, expressed his disappointment that notebook selling would not be stopped until publishing of such book is stopped.
Sirazul Islam, Sylhet district president of Bangladesh Book Publishers and Sellers’ Association, said, ‘The authorities concerned should stop printing and supply of these kinds of books before taking action against sellers,
‘Sylhet Education board Chairman Professor Md. Mojidul Islam said they were trying to get the students rid of dependence on notebooks through preparing diverse question papers of the examinations. ‘Students would study textbooks properly instead of guidebooks.
