File photo: Students receive free textbooks from government on January 1, 2020 Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka TribuneStudents will get textbooks under current curriculum in 2021The Ministry of Education has decided to distribute textbooks, which earlier were planned to be made available to students from 2021, under a new curriculum from 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic across the country. Students will get textbooks under the existing curriculum in 2021. The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Education Minister Dipu Moni at the International Mother Language Institute in the capital. Students will get the textbooks under a new curriculum from 2022.”It was previously decided by the ministry that textbooks would be distributed under a new curriculum by 2021 for students of class I, class II, and class VI, he said. A total of 3, 53,144,554 copies of textbooks were distributed among 4, 26, 19,865 students of pre-primary, primary, ebtedayee, secondary, dakhil, and vocational institutions this academic year.

Source: Dhaka Tribune June 02, 2020 17:26 UTC