Several firefighting units have been dispatched to the factory in the Bayezid Textile area
All preparations have been completed, Nurul Islam Nahid said in Dhaka on Saturday.
As many as 44 million students will get 350 million books for free on Jan 1 as part of the ‘Textbook Festival’.
The ministry has been organising the festival for the last few years by distributing new textbooks among students.
Last year, the government handed out around 260 million textbooks.