BSS, Dhaka :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will formally inaugurate free textbook distribution programme for the academic year 2017 today as the “National Textbook Festival” is set to be celebrated across the country on January 1.
“Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will formally open the free textbook distribution programme by handing over textbooks of primary and secondary levels to students at a function at her official Ganabhaban residence at 10 am today,” official sources said.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid will inaugurate the central programme of the “National Textbook Festival-2017” at Azimpur Government Girls School and College in the capital at 9.30 am on January 1.
Secretary of the Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Division Md Sohrab Hossain, Secretary of Technical and Madrasa Education Division Md Alamgir and Chairman of National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) Prof Narayan Chandra Saha will also be present at the function.
More than 5,000 students of 31 schools of the capital will also join the function, the sources said.
NCTB Chairman Prof Narayan Chandra Saha earlier told BSS that the government will distribute 36,21,82,245 textbooks for free of cost among the primary and secondary level students in academic year 2017.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will formally inaugurate free textbook distribution programme for the academic year 2017 today as the “National Textbook Festival” is set to be celebrated across the country on January 1.
“Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will formally open the free textbook distribution programme by handing over textbooks of primary and secondary levels to students at a function at her official Ganabhaban residence at 10 am today,” official sources said.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid will inaugurate the central programme of the “National Textbook Festival-2017” at Azimpur Government Girls School and College in the capital at 9.30 am on January 1.
Secretary of the Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Division Md Sohrab Hossain, Secretary of Technical and Madrasa Education Division Md Alamgir and Chairman of National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) Prof Narayan Chandra Saha will also be present at the function.
More than 5,000 students of 31 schools of the capital will also join the function, the sources said.
NCTB Chairman Prof Narayan Chandra Saha earlier told BSS that the government will distribute 36,21,82,245 textbooks for free of cost among the primary and secondary level students in academic year 2017.
