PM inaugurates textbook distribution

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has opened the free textbook distribution festival for students up to the secondary level for the academic year 2024. Students across Bangladesh will be handed over textbooks tomorrow (Jan 1). Hasina inaugurated the textbook distribution programme at her office by handing over books to students of pre-primary, primary and secondary levels on Sunday (Dec 31). With Education Minister Dipu Moni in the chair, Deputy Minister for Education Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury delivered the welcome address. State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Md Zakir Hossen spoke at the function too. The government has taken steps to distribute nearly 307,083,517 copies of new textbooks among 38,128,324 students this year, at a cost of Tk 1,400 crore. Textbooks have already been sent to every upazila in the country. The government has so far distributed over 4,647,829,883 copies of free textbooks among students up to secondary level since 2010. Since 2017, the government has been distributing braille books among the blind students alongside books in Chakma, Marma, Tripura, Garo and Sadri languages to the children of ethnic minority groups.
Published on: 2023-12-31 08:10:26.189022 +0100 CET