Textbook festival 1 January

File photo of students showing their textbooks. Photo: UNB
File photo of students showing their textbooks. Photo: UNB

The textbook festival will be celebrated across the country on Tuesday, marking the distribution of free textbooks among the students of schools and madrashas across the country, reports UNB.

Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid will distribute books from Azimpur Government Girls' School and College field around 9:30am, said senior information officer Arfazur Rahman of the ministry.

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina formally inaugurated the distribution of free textbooks on 24 December.