Govt to distribute 354.20m free textbooks today

Some 354.20 million (exact figure 354,290,162) textbooks will be distributed today (Monday) among the students of primary to intermediate-level across the country in 2018 academic year, reports UNB.

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid will distribute books at the complex of Azimpur Girls' School and College at 10 am while Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman will provide free text books among the students at Dhaka University playground.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally inaugurated the distribution of free textbooks among students up to the secondary level for the academic year 2018 on Saturday.