Education Adviser Ayub Quadri yesterday said the interim government has already taken initiatives to correct all sorts of history distortion from primary and secondary level textbooks to be distributed among students next year.

"I also directed my colleagues to identify all types of distortion of history, especially that of liberation war and contribution of liberation war heroes including Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Ziaur Rahman. I hope we will be able to amend or remove all types of distortion in new textbooks for 2008. From which students will learn real history of the liberation war," Ayub Quadri said at a views exchange meeting with journalists at the secretariat.

He also said the education ministry has identified most distortions of history in the textbooks for classes one to ten.

"The history of the liberation war has been changed over and over again while our children remained in the dark about the true history," said a regretful Quadri.

"It is impossible to correct the information in the existing textbooks immediately, but new textbooks for the future years will be free from all distortions," he added.

Education Secretary Mamtazul Islam and Joint Secretary Nazrul Islam were present among others at the meeting.