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Govt distributes 295cr free textbooks in 10 years, minister tells JS
SANGSAD BHABAN, June 25, 2019 (BSS) – Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni today told the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) that the government distributed around 295.01 crore textbooks free of cost among the pre-primary and secondary level students in the last 10 years.
“The government distributed 295 crore, 1 lakh, 20 thousand and 784 textbooks among pre-primary, primary, ibtedayee, secondary, dakhil, dakhil (vocational) and SSC (vocational) students free of cost from 2010 to 2019,” she said.
Replying to a tabled question from treasury bench lawmaker M Abdul Latif of Chattogram-11 in the House, Dipu Moni said the government has also distributed around 1.07 crore instruction modules among teachers from 2010 to 2019.
The government has included pre-primary students under the free textbooks programme from 2014 academic year, she informed the House.
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