Reset in Ties~I
After winning four successive elections in 2008, 2014, 2018 and 2024 in Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced by mass protests to resign and flee to India on 5 August 2024.
As the National Textbook Festival of Bangladesh is set to be celebrated across the country on January 1, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the free textbook distribution programme for the coming academic year (2018) on Saturday (December 30).
Hasina formally opened the free textbook distribution programme by handing over books of primary and secondary levels to students at her official Ganabhaban residence.
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The Hasina government started distributing free textbooks among students in 2010.
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Under the National Textbook Festival, nearly 35.4 crore textbooks will be distributed among over 4-crore pre-primary, primary, secondary, ibtedayi, dakhil vocational, SSC vocational, small anthropological groups and visually-challenged students across Bangladesh.
As per reports, an additional 71.9 lakh textbooks were printed for the next academic year.
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