Politics
Milon pledges tighter quality checks for 2027 textbooks
The minister said poor-quality books had been rejected and promised timely delivery to students.
File photo: NCTB science and maths books, January 2018; these are not the 2027 books. Photo: Nurunnaby Chowdhury (Hasive) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized; card display may crop the image.
Primary and Mass Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon said on 3 October that the government would not accept poor-quality textbooks for 2027, according to BSS.
At a discussion in Dhaka, he said substandard books had been rejected and destroyed. He pledged timely distribution and scrutiny of paper, ink and printing quality. These were ministerial statements; the report did not provide an independent inspection of the books.
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File photo: NCTB science and maths books, January 2018; these are not the 2027 books. Photo: Nurunnaby Chowdhury (Hasive) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized; card display may crop the image.
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