Preparation in full swing to distribute new textbooks to students

The interim government has been working in full swing with the hope of distributing free textbooks among the students from pre-primary to secondary level across the country at the very beginning of the academic year 2025, reports BSS.

A total of 375 million textbooks will be printed for the upcoming 2025 academic year, which was 350 million last year. The activities will begin through opening of tenders on October 14 while the process of printing is expected to start in the first week of November, according to education ministry officials.

"Despite placing orders in November, we managed to distribute books on January first in 2020, 2021 and 2022 amid the Covid-19 pandemic. This time, we will try our best to distribute the maximum number of books in early January even if hundred percent is not possible," National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) Chairman AKM Riazul Hasan said.

Riazul said there has been a tradition of distributing books at the beginning of the academic year which has both good and bad sides, as such obligation in printing books in a rush sometimes leads to compromise with the quality of books.

"As a result, complaints like using poor quality papers, substandard binding, blurry texts, printing errors, torn books, unclear photos and so on used to arise," he added.