Students to get textbooks early January: NCTB

The government plans to deliver textbooks to students at primary, secondary, ibtedayee, dakhil and technical education levels in the first week of January next year, reports BSS. Chairman of National Curriculum of Textbook Board (NCTB) Prof M Mostafa Kamaluddin told the news agency that all the textbooks will reach the districts and upazilas by next month. Prof Kamaluddin said 221 million textbooks would be supplied to educational institutions for 31.21 million students this year. Last year, he said, as many as 232 million books were distributed among 32.23 million students. The NCTB chairman said a new subject dubbed 'Information and Communication Technology' (ICT) has been incorporated in class six. Students will have to read the new subject from next year and the subject would be made compulsory from class six to class ten. The subject has been introduced to supplement the government's efforts for implementing Vision-2021, he added. He said the NCTB has brought some changes to its curriculums and names in the classes of six, seven and eight as the 'Samajik Bigyan' (Social Science) book would be introduced as 'Bangladesh and Biswa Porichoy' from next year.