, Aug. 21 -- The public purchase committee in a recent meeting turned down the procurement proposals for printing free textbooks for Class 6, 7, and 8 students under 2026 academic session, raising concerns over potential delays in the timely distribution of textbooks to the secondary-level students.

The proposals, placed by the Secondary and Higher Education Division and to be executed by the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB), involved a combined budget of over Tk 603 crore for printing more than 12 crore copies of textbooks for the three classes, covering both Bangla and English versions, as well as Dakhil and technical streams.

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The proposal was reject...