Staff Reporter :
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board transferred its six high-level officials to different government colleges for occurrence of mistakes in this year’s school textbooks.
The Education Ministry on Wednesday issued a gazette notification in this regard and asked the officials to handover charges by today (Thursday).
The transferred NCTB officials are: Primary Curriculum Wing Member Md Abdul Mannan, NCTB Editor Gouranga Lal Sarkar, Specialists Md Mosleh Uddin Sarkar and Md Hannan Mian. NCTB Secretary Md Imrul Hasan and Research Officer Rebeca Sultana Lipi were transferred beforehand on Tuesday.
Md Abdul Mannan has been transferred to Jhenaidah Govt KC College, Gouranga Lal Sarkar to Hatia Govt College in Noakhali, Md Mosleh Uddin Sarkar and Md Hannan Mian to in Patuakhali and Thakurgaon’s Pirganj Upazila respectively, Md Imrul Hasan to a college in Thakurgaon’s Pirganj Upazila and Rebeca Sultana Lipi to Shahid Suhrwardy College in Dhaka.
An Education Ministry official said that the probe body found these officials responsible. The committee was formed to investigate the errors in textbooks, which triggered widespread sarcasm on social media.
NCTB Chief Editor Pritish Kumar Sarkar and Senior Expert Lana Humaira Khan have been redesignated as officers on “special duty” based on the findings of a primary investigation.
The Ministry has also suspended the Board’s Artist cum-Designer Sujaul Abedin.
The NCTB works under the Education Ministry even though it publishes books for primary schools under the purview of Primary and Mass Education Ministry.
