Purchase deals for 12.5cr textbooks okayed
The advisory council committee on government purchase at a meeting on Wednesday approved three separate proposals to buy about 12.5 crore copies of textbooks at a cost of Tk聽443.87 crore...
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Deals for printing 5.54cr textbook copies okayed
The advisory council committee on government purchase at a meeting on Tuesday approved supply deals of 5.54 crore copies of Class IX-X textbooks for 2026.
5.54cr textbook purchase proposal sent back
Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Sunday said that hopefully, they would distribute free textbooks among students on the first day of 2026 despite orders for more than half of such books yet to be placed.
Govt should tie all loose ends to meet timely textbook supply
THE National Curriculum and Textbook Board, meant to provide about 40 million students with textbooks on January 1, when the academic year begins, could print about 410.5 million copies of textbooks for the current academic year and complete the distribution by March, three months after classes began. The failure earned the board criticism. The board could run into...
Textbook distribution on first day of 鈥�26 becomes uncertain
Uncertainty looms if the National Curriculum and Textbook Board will be able to distribute all textbooks among all students on the first day of 2026, following the government鈥檚 recent cancellation of a tender for printing 12.61 crore books.
NCTB split into two entities appears right step forward
THE government鈥檚 initiative to put the task of printing pre-primary and primary textbooks, which the National Curriculum and Textbook Board has so far done, at the hands of the primary and mass education ministry appears problematic. The government has drafted the amendments to the National Curriculum and Textbook Board Act 2018 to transfer the responsibility for...
Pry edn ministry to print, distribute textbooks
An initiative to engage the primary and mass education ministry in printing and distributing free textbooks for the pre-primary- and primary-level education is advancing despite objection from National Curriculum and Textbook Board officials.
ACC starts quizzing printing house owners
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday started interrogating owners of different printing houses over allegations of corruption in printing books of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board...
JCD demands removal of NCTB chairman, member
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, on Sunday demanded removal of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board chair and its member for textbook for their alleged connection with the ousted Awami League regime...
2023 curriculum imposed through conspiracy: NCTB
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board chair AKM Reazul Hassan said at a press conference on Tuesday that the national curriculum of 2023 was deliberately imposed on them and it was a foreign conspiracy...
5cr textbooks not printed yet
Many primary and secondary level students across the country are going to over a month-long holiday while they have yet to get all free textbooks from the government.
Bangladesh moves to address China鈥檚 concerns over textbooks, map
Bangladesh said that it had taken measures to address some objections raised by China regarding two Bangladeshi textbooks and the map displayed on the website of the survey of Bangladesh.
Revision to Islamic studies textbooks stressed
Writers, researchers, academics and Islamic scholars on Wednesday stressed revisions to Islamic studies textbooks for primary- and secondary-level education...
59pc textbooks yet to be distributed
More than half of the free textbooks meant for the students from the pre-primary level to the higher secondary level in the country are yet to be distributed among the students although the education ministry officials promised to distribute all books by today...
All pry students to get textbooks by Jan: adviser
The primary and mass education affairs adviser, Bidhan Ranjan Roy Poddar, on Sunday said that all primary students would get textbooks by January...
NCTB fails to incorporate uprising spirit in textbooks: seminar
Speakers at a seminar on Friday said that the National Curriculum and Textbook Board failed to properly incorporate the 2024 July uprising spirit in the newly revised textbooks.
Writ petition seeks probe into corruption allegations against NCTB chairman
A writ petition was filed with the High Court on Tuesday, seeking the court to direct the Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate corruption allegations against the National Curriculum and Textbook Board chairman....
Proposed refined curriculum for 2026 likely to be implemented in phases
The proposed refined national curriculum for the next year is likely to be implemented in phases, said National Curriculum and Textbook Board officials...
ATTACK ON NATIONAL MINORITY STUDENTS: Protests on as advisers say meeting all demands impossible
Adviser to the ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs Supradip Chakma on Monday said that the government had all sympathy for the protesting national minority students but could not meet all their demands...
Attacks on national minority student protests outrageous
THE attacks on the protests that national minority students held on January 15 and the attacks on a rally that mostly students held the next day in protest at the attacks on the January 15 protests are as unsavoury as equally outrageous. Students of national minorities, banded as the Aggrieved Indigenous Students and People, held protests at the...
NATIONAL MINORITY LANGUAGE GRAFFITI: 2 confronting platforms to hold demos before NCTB
Two confronting students鈥� platforms are scheduled to stage demonstrations today cordoning off the National Curriculum and Textbook Board building in the capital over removal of graffiti on the national minority groups from a textbook...
Remove misleading info about BNP in textbook: Rizvi
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday said that the new textbook for the Class IX and X contained misleading information about the BNP and urged the government to remove the information immediately from the book.
Textbook crisis leaves students in limbo
THE 2025 academic year in Bangladesh began with a major setback as significant delays in textbook distribution disrupted classrooms nationwide. While the government introduced online textbooks as an interim solution...
27.4 per cent free textbooks distributed so far: NCTB
Most of the students across the country are yet to get the free textbooks as till Wednesday about 27.4 per cent books had been distributed...
Education, given short shrift, has always been left in lurch
EDUCATION has been a happening sector in the year that has passed by, with changes in the curriculum and textbooks, which reverted to a much previous state with changes in textbooks after the August 5 political changeover. The sector has always been happening at intervals since independence. But allocation for education has always remained...
Most students yet to get free textbooks
Majorities of the students across the country did not get free textbooks on the second day of the year on Thursday...
TEXTBOOK DISTRIBUTION: Edn adviser regrets failure
The education adviser, Wahiduddin Mahmud, on Wednesday expressed regrets to students and their guardians for not distributing all free textbooks on the first day of this year...
Most students unlikely to get free textbooks today
The majority of the students are unlikely to get free textbooks today while the government is returning to the previous national curriculum of 2012 for this academic year.
70pc textbooks may not be distributed聽on Jan 1
About 70 per cent copies of the free textbooks are unlikely to be distributed among the students on the first day of 2025.
Govt prioritises timely textbook distribution: adviser
Education adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud said that ensuring the timely printing, binding, distribution, and supply of textbooks was one of the government鈥檚 top priorities...
