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Textbook printing goes private

Staff Correspondent
Die government has started the process of handing over the job of textbook printing to the private sector to ensure timely distribution and q uali ly of textbooks.
The privatisation process will put an end to the monopoly of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) in printing secondary school level textbooks.
Die NCTB in accordance with a decision of the education ministry has already taken necessary steps to print seven textbooks for class IX and X through private printers.
The board will hand over the printing jobs of a total of 71 textbooks to the private sector in 2006 and 2007 in phases. The handover will be completed by 2007, sources said.
The printing of textbooks by private sector would ease the pressure on NCTB and make it more dynamic, said a NCTB report sub-mitlgd yesterday at a meeting of the parliamentary standing committee on education ministry.
"The main objective of the NCTB is to improve quality of textbooks but the board cannot do it because of the extra burden of printing books," Education Minister Osman Farruk told the meeting held at the JatiyaSangsad Bhaban.
The education minister hoped the NCI'B would be able to work effectively to improve quality of textbooks by freeing itself from the printing job, Committee Chairman Shamsul Alam Pramanik told reporters after the meeting.
The NCTB is tasked with the formulation of curriculum, text, publication and distribution of textbooks from primary to higher secondary level. But the board does not have necessary capacity to perform the massive tasks.
Officials said the NCTB is not efficient enough to publish quality textbooks in time that leads to delay in distribution of books almost every year.
Initially, the board is engaging private printers for books on seven subjects - English second paper, Algebra, Social Science, General Science, Physics, Management and History -Jpj jjq^ IX and Xjiindents.
An independent textbook evaluation committee is now evaluating the contents of the seven textbooks under the supervision of the NCTB.
Senior officials of the NCTB at yesterday’s parliamentary committee meeting gave assurance that students would get books in time from the next year. The board has initiated all-out measures in this regard, said the NCTB report.
The parliamentary body also discussed a proposed bill seeking establishment of an organisation to introduce a system of registration and awarding eligibility certificate for the teachers of the private educational institutions.