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Ghost printers of illegal notebooks

MUSTAK HOSSAIN
Unscrupulous traders in connivance with a section of law enforcers, control illegal trade of notebooks worth at least Tk 100 crore a year, according to printing industry sources.
Using fake names and addresses of printing press, dishonest traders print and distribute notebooks through an organised network across the country.
The government has banned notebooks up to class eight as they harm the standard of education. Anyone violating the ban faces imprisonment up to seven years and a fine of Tk 30,000 or both.
But dishonest traders now print notebooks naming those 'guidebooks' to escape punishment. A section of law enforcing agency people get substantial amounts from the traders in the process of printing and distribution of the books.
Two types of notebook trad-
ers are in the field -- one group is active only during the first few months of an academic year and another round the year.
At least 50 so-called publishing houses through a syndicate bring out notebooks or guidebooks for class two and upwards. The books are printed in such a way that those could be used as 'copy chit' in public examinations.
A partner of Lucky Star Publishing House at the capital's Bangla Bazar said, "We don't print notebooks, which is illegal. But we publish guidebooks as those are helpful to students."
About the notebooks, a senior teacher of Dhanmondi Government High School said there is no necessity of these books if students follow their textbooks.
Moreover, the contents of the notebooks or guidebooks claimed to be written by 'an expert headmaster' or 'a group of experts' are far from being up to mark as those are actually
written by incompetent people, industry insiders said.
Publishing houses get the books written mostly by students, unemployed youths or other hired people.
One Mohammad Abdus Salam, whose name appears on guidebooks as MA Salam, has written many such books for secondary level to higher secondary level.
An employed graduate, Salam took to writing notebooks or guidebooks on a host of subjects ranging from Bengali to history for different publishing houses, one source pointed out.
"There are many other authors like Salam enaged in writing these books for publishers, " sources at Bangla Bazar book market said.
Even some publishers just change portions of old notebooks and reprint those, they mentioned.
Booksellers sometimes compel students and guardians to buy notebooks with the textbooks, it is alleged.