Primary textbooks to reach dists by Nov 15
Friday, 10 October 2008
Primary school textbooks will reach all districts by November 15, to ensure that all students have textbooks on the first day of the forthcoming new year, said the National Curriculum and Textbook Board chairman, Prof Mocchir Uddin, Thursday.
"As we want to provide students with new textbooks in January, we'll distribute them to all districts by November 15, from where the books will reach schools via upazila authorities," the NCTB boss told the bdnews24.com.
Prof Sirajul Haque, NCTB member (textbooks), told the news agency that following existing rules, students of classes I and II would receive all new books and those of classes III, IV and V would get half new and the remainder used texts.
Preparations were on, he added, with a view to supplying 100 per cent new textbooks to all primary school students from 2010 onwards.
The NCTB was printing 48.2 million (4.82 crore) books for primary students and 16.1 million for Ibtedayee madrasah students, Haque said.
He further said the board had just invited tenders for printing secondary school textbooks, which were expected to reach students in January.
"As we want to provide students with new textbooks in January, we'll distribute them to all districts by November 15, from where the books will reach schools via upazila authorities," the NCTB boss told the bdnews24.com.
Prof Sirajul Haque, NCTB member (textbooks), told the news agency that following existing rules, students of classes I and II would receive all new books and those of classes III, IV and V would get half new and the remainder used texts.
Preparations were on, he added, with a view to supplying 100 per cent new textbooks to all primary school students from 2010 onwards.
The NCTB was printing 48.2 million (4.82 crore) books for primary students and 16.1 million for Ibtedayee madrasah students, Haque said.
He further said the board had just invited tenders for printing secondary school textbooks, which were expected to reach students in January.