M M Jasim :
The National Textbook Festival 2017 will be celebrated across the country today (Sunday) with the distribution of new textbooks among the students of schools and madrashas free of cost.
A total of 36 crore 21 lakh 82 thousand and 285 textbooks will be distributed among the 4, 26,00,000 pre-primary to secondary level students for 2017 academic session.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally inaugurated free textbook distribution programme by giving textbooks to the students at a function in her official Ganobhaban residence on Saturday.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid and Primary and Mass Education Minister Md Mustafizur among the 4, 26,00,000 pre-primary to secondary level students for 2017 academic session.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally inaugurated free textbook distribution programme by giving textbooks to the students at a function in her official Ganobhaban residence on Saturday. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid and Primary and Mass Education Minister Md Mustafizur Rahman spoke at the function conducted by Md Sohrab Hossain Secretary of the Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Division of the ministry. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid will inaugurate the festival at the Azimpur Government School and College ground by distributing new sets of textbooks among the students.
Secretary of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Division Md Sohrab Hossain, Secretary of Vocational and Madrashas department Md Alamgir and National Curriculum and Textbook Board Chairman Professor Narayan Chandra Pal and senior officials of the ministry and teachers will be present on the occasion.
The minister hoped that the festival would be held with the participation of the students and the guardians.
The Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman Fizar will celebrate the day at Dhaka University Playground. Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith is likely to attend the function as the chief guest.
The government this year printed textbooks in five ethnic languages. Textbooks printed in Braille method will be distributed among the challenged students.
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) has printed Braille system textbooks for the visually challenged students and it also printed pre-primary books in the languages of five small anthropological groups which would be distributed free of cost on January 1.
