National Textbook Festival on 1st January

Textbook festival on 1 Jan

National Curriculum and Textbook Board will stage the "National Textbook Festival" on January 01, 2016 across the country when students of all schools, madrasas and technical education institutes will get new textbook free of cost.

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid will inaugurate the central program of the "National Textbook Festival-2017" at Azimpur Government Girls School and College in the capital at 9:30 am on January 01, 2016.

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) Professor 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 Professor Narayan Chandra Saha earlier told the news agency that the government will distribute 362,182,245 textbooks for free of cost among the primary and secondary level students in academic year 2017.

"The free textbooks will be distributed among 42,635,929 pre-primary, primary, secondary, ibtedayi, dakhil, dakhil vocational, SSC vocational, small anthropological group and visually challenged students across the country", he said. "All books have already been reached their destinations", the NCTB chairman said, adding that textbooks will be made available at districts, upazilas and remote areas by December 17, 2016.

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Account BenefitProfessor Narayan also said for the first time arrangements have been made for supplying guidelines to teachers for resolving complications over the creative question paper system. He said 6,001,024 guide books have been prepared for primary teachers while 4,666,664 books for secondary teachers.

Education ministry officials said 333,762,772 textbooks were distributed among 44,416,728 students of pre-primary, primary, ibtedayi, secondary, dakhil and technical students for the 2016 academic year. "Taka 5,658.86 crore has been spent for free textbooks distribution among students of pre-primary, primary, ibtedayi, secondary, dakhil and technical students in the eight years", the NCTB chairman said. He said the government has been distributing free textbooks to encourage students of poor families to continue their studies, which eventually is checking drop-out rate at both primary and secondary level educational institutions.