Major Changes Coming for Bangla, English Textbooks

Schoolbooks to be Overhauled | Content related to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be dropped, account of student uprising will be added

- Agencies

Bangla and English textbooks for primary and secondary schools are set to see some major changes, including the dropping of some contents related to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Contents on the student-led mass uprising are likely to be included in the textbooks for classes five to nine, said sources at the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB).

Six texts and proses on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be dropped from English textbooks of classes six to nine, while four write-ups on the July uprising are to be added.

Three proses and poems on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman might be dropped from Bangla textbooks of classes six and seven, and four write-ups on the July uprising are likely to be added in their stead.

A content each on Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani and Titumir will be removed from the class six Bangla textbook.

It has also been decided that five contents written by Selina Hossain, two by Prof Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, one each by Syed Shamsul Haque, Rokonuzzman Khan, Nirmalendu Goon and former bureaucrat Kamal Chowdhury, along with others, will be removed.