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Published : 28 Dec 2025, 07:24 PM
Education Advisor Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar has said all of the new textbooks for both primary and secondary students will be distributed before the middle of January next year.
Speaking at the launch of uploading soft copies of the new textbooks online at the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) in Motijheel on Sunday, Abrar said: “Academic activities will resume by mid-January next year, and almost 100 percent textbooks will be delivered to students by then.”
Printing is already complete for 85.9 million copies of primary grade books.
However, for secondary students, printing of 214.3 million copies was delayed towards the end of the year, raising concerns that students might not receive all textbooks at the start of the academic year.
Addressing these concerns, Abrar emphasised that there is no reason for “unnecessary hype”.
“Reports in the media were accurate in parts, but some reports were not entirely made in good faith,” he said.
He added that the reports were created by different interest groups, but the administration did not “contest” them, focusing on the work at hand.
“Ultimately, our goal was to ensure the delivery of accurate and high-quality textbooks, and that is the real test.”
Explaining the delay in printing, Abrar noted that a careful review and destruction of substandard books were necessary.
He said the authorities took extra time to ensure no errors remained in the production process. If these steps had not been taken, textbooks could have reached students by early December.
Abrar highlighted that delivering accurate textbooks into students’ hands has always been the administration’s primary objective and stressed that this achievement was made possible through collective effort.
Continuing its annual practice, NCTB published online PDF versions of textbooks for next year’s primary and secondary students on Sunday. Students can access 647 textbooks in both Bengali and English via the NCTB website: www.nctb.gov.bd.
