Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina opens free textbook distribution

As the National Textbook Festival of Bangladesh is set to be celebrated across the country on January 1, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the free textbook distribution programme for the coming academic year (2018) on Saturday (December 30).

Hasina formally opened the free textbook distribution programme by handing over books of primary and secondary levels to students at her official Ganabhaban residence.

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The Hasina government started distributing free textbooks among students in 2010.

Under the National Textbook Festival, nearly 35.4 crore textbooks will be distributed among over 4-crore pre-primary, primary, secondary, ibtedayi, dakhil vocational, SSC vocational, small anthropological groups and visually-challenged students across Bangladesh.

As per reports, an additional 71.9 lakh textbooks were printed for the next academic year.