Staff Correspondent
The education minister, Nurul Islam Nahid, on Sunday visited Banglabazar book market in Dhaka and found a powerful syndicate behind the artificial crisis of secondary textbooks.
As soon the minister entered the market in the afternoon, a number of retailers who went to the market from different
parts of the country to buy books started shouted slogans against a number of wholesalers and publishers for creating the artificial crisis.
The retailers told Nurul there were a large number of textbooks in the stock, but the wholesalers were not selling them.
The retailers also demanded punishment of the wholesalers. The minister at once asked the officials concerned to take legal action against the people responsible for the artificial textbook crisis.
The minister accompanied by a number of education ministry officials has found Hasan Book Depot, Talent Publishers, Wide Publishers and Popy Book Publishers not to be going by the rules set by the government regarding the printing and sales of textbooks.
The government has, meanwhile, decided to print 70 lakh more copies of the textbooks for Classes between VI and IX to resolve the crisis.
A meeting chaired by the education ministry’s additional secretary M Mozammel Haque Khan made the decision at the directive of the minister.
‘The additional 70 lakh copies of textbooks will be published by January 15,’ the additional secretary said.
Courtesy: newagebd.com
