Govt dissolves textbook revision committee

The Ministry of Education today (28 September) dissolved the ten-member coordination committee shaped to revise and amend all textbooks.

The ministry issued an put of enterprise remark in this regard, signed by Secondary and Greater Education Division Senior Assistant Secretary Yanur Rahman.

On 15 September, the executive shaped a 10-member coordination committee for the revision and modification of all textbooks prepared and published by the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB).

KM Kabirul Islam, extra secretary of the Ministry of Education, used to be appointed because the convener, with Yanur Rahman serving because the member secretary.

The diversified contributors of the committee incorporated education researcher Rakhal Raha, Prof Kamrul Hasan Mamun from the Department of Physics at Dhaka University, Prof Mohammad Azam from the Bengali Department, Affiliate Prof Samina Luthfa Nitra from the Department of Sociology, Extra Secretary Masud Akhtar Khan from the Ministry of Predominant and Mass Education, NCTB Chairman Prof Dr AKM Riazul Hasan, NCTB Curriculum Committee Member Prof Rabiul Kabir Chowdhury, and NCTB Predominant Curriculum Member Prof AFM Sarwar Jahan.

On 22 September, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary Typical Mia Golam Parwar known as upon the executive to incorporate as a minimum two alems and Islami scholars in the committee. Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim, amir of the Islamic Andolan Bangladesh (IAB), also made the identical put a question to.

A identical put a question to used to be also raised by a lecturers’ organisation named National Lecturers’ Forum.