PM inaugurates textbook festival

Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally inaugurated the free-textbook distribution festival at a function on Monday.

As many as 35,21,97,882 free textbooks will be distributed among 4,26,19,865 primary and secondary-level students on January1 across the country in the academic year 2019.

The government scheduled the programme for December 24 this year, ahead of the 11th parliamentary election to be held on December 30.

The school authorities will start handing over new books from January 1.

The government distributed 35,42,90,162 textbooks among 4,37,06,895 pre-primary, primary, secondary, ebtedayee and SSC-level students last year.

The government distributed 260.86 crore textbooks for free among the pre-primary, primary, secondary, ebtedayee and SSC-level students in the last nine academic years.


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