The National Curriculum and Textbook Board chair AKM Reazul Hassan said at a press conference on Tuesday that the national curriculum of 2023 was deliberately imposed on them and it was a foreign conspiracy.
鈥楾he 2023 curriculum was imposed on us through foreign conspiracy to make our nation disabled,鈥� he said, adding, 鈥榳e are trying to get out of that place.鈥�
The conspiracy was planned to destroy the dividend period and the nation could not go forward in different sectors, including the readymade garment sector, he also said.
At the press conference, held at the NCTB鈥檚 headquarters in the capital, Reazul also said that they had tried to distribute all textbooks by today.
He said that it would be possible to distribute all textbooks by March 16.
He said that they had started to process tenders from November 15, 2024, for printing the textbooks.
For the delay in tender process past year, the chairman blamed the people engaged with the formulation of the 2023 curriculum.
He mentioned that the curriculum was discarded after the students protested against it on roads.
Replying to a question on delay in distribution of textbooks, he blamed the printing presses, especially eight ones.
He also said that some upazila education officers kept some extra textbooks comparing to their demands.
About an allegation against writer and education researcher Rakhal Raha for his involvement in a Tk 400 crore commission trading involving NCTB鈥檚 textbook printing paper, the chairman said that the allegation was propaganda and a fiction.
He also said that Rakhal Raha did not know anything about the board鈥檚 tender process.聽
The education ministry on September 28 past year cancelled a committee formed on September 15 to review and amend all textbooks of the NCTB following criticism from different Islamist parties and groups.
Rakhal Raha was one of the members of the 10-member committee.
