Committee to expedite free textbook distribution

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Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid Wednesday said that the ministry had formed a three-member committee to find out the reasons behind delay of distribution of free textbooks at the field level and asked it to resolve the problem within ten days.
Ha said the ministry Wednesday instantly suspended District Education Officer (DEO) of Dhaka, Ruhul Amin Khan, for his negligence in duty in distributing free textbooks at the secondary level, reports BSS.
Nahid was briefing the journalists at the conference room of the ministry after the 4th meeting of the monitoring committee on free textbook distribution of National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB).
The education minister said the three-member committees included chairman of NCTB, director general of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education and director general of Primary Education.
About the progress of book distribution, Nahid said even in remote areas like Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) free textbooks had been distributed in time while complaints have been raised from the capital.
The government would streamline the whole process of textbook distribution removing all obstacles, he added.
Nahid said there were monitoring committees for textbook distribution in district and upazila levels to address local problems.
About unregistered Kindergarten schools, he said, as they did not inform their demand in time it created textbook distribution problem. Yet the government was trying to help them and textbooks were available in the NCTB websites, he added.
Replying to a question on distribution of free textbooks in primary schools, he said the ministry concerned was looking into that.
An NCTB source said, 15,53,982 books were at stock in hand of the DEO of Dhaka, but he did not distribute it in time that created sufferings of students and guardians.