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Textbooks

Privatisation of printing, marketing can solve crisis

Publishers tell nat'l expert body

Staff Correspondent
Privatisation of printing and marketing of textbooks and making an arrangement to buy papers through open tenders can resolve textbook crisis, proprietors and representatives of textbook publishing and printing bodies have proposed this to the national textbook expert committee to ensure textbooks in time.
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) should not publish book any more, rather it should act like a guardian and curriculum expert, they added.
the expert body formed on March 9 to ensure textbooks in time at the lower secondary and secondary’ levels yesterday sat with the representatives of printing and publishing organisations at a view exchange meeting in the city.
The speakers mentioned that giving subsidy on papers, fixing the number of books according to old books instead of demands, scheduling of NCTB and problems in distribution system are few reasons behind the textbook crisis.
They said the NCTB has to give up the trading mentality and let the private publishers publish the supplementary' books.
Buying papers from only Karnaphuli Mill should be cancelled and there should be an arrangement to buy papers through open tenders, they said, adding that there should be a mechanism to examine quality of the publishing and printing bodies.
Stressing the need for developing professionalism in NCTB, University Press Limited Managing Director Mahiuddin Ahmed said NCTB should stop publishing books, rather it should help the independent textbook evaluation committee (ITEC) and other publishers.
He said some publishers tend to push notebooks, though it is banned, adding
that this practice is a hindrance to distribution of books.
Convener of the expert body Prof Akhtaruzzaman said the problem has been prevailing in the country for years which needs a permanent solution.
“We are taking suggestions from different sections of the people who have stakes in it. We held meetings with senior academicians and reporters as such." he said, adding that the committee will rake all the suggestions into consideration and will give a recommendation to the government in this regard.
Committee members Moyjuddin Ahmed, joint secretary (secondary) of education ministry; Prof Khan Habibur Rahman, NCTB chairman; Prof Shafiqur Rahman, member secretary of the committee; SM Omar Faruk, managing director of Globe Library Ltd; and Osman Gani, proprietor of Agami Prokashoni, spoke at the meeting.