Bangladesh Govt to sell leftover textbooks as scraps-Tk 65 crore for the production

[Sayeed]

With 65 crore Bangladesh could build a university for science and technology, our government policy makers should be accountable for this waste.  

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Govt to sell 1.6cr leftover textbooks as scraps

About 1.6 crore leftover copies of textbooks, printed for the 2012 academic year, will now be sold as scrap papers, according to education officials.
The government will incur a loss of about Tk 65 crore for the production, distribution and withdrawal of the books from storehouses of district education offices across the country, the officials said. 
The government in the 2012 academic session had printed about 22 crore copies of textbooks for distributing among the students from class I to IX.
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board chairman, Mostafa Kamaluddin, said, ‘The number of leftover books is about 1.6 crore copies and all of them are redundant as their contents have been changed this year.’
A recent meeting on textbook distribution decided that the leftover textbooks would be sold out at Tk 15 per kilogram through auction, he said.
Education secretary Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury at the meeting expressed dissatisfaction over the huge number of leftover textbooks and observed that the people responsible for the wrong assessment and estimation should be identified. The meeting, however, initiated no investigation to identify them.
The directorate of secondary and higher education with the help of district education officers and upazila secondary education officers prepares the list of probable students and submits demands of required number of textbooks to the textbook board every year. The board is entrusted to develop content and curriculum and print, publish and distribute the textbooks.
The director (secondary) of the directorate, Sajal Kanti Mondol, said that the teachers and the upazila secondary education officers estimated the demand of textbooks.
Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid in the last week told the Jatiya Sangsad that nearly 27 crore copies of textbooks were printed and distributed in the academic session 2013.