We’re in dark about textbook error changes: NCTB editors
Thirteen editors and compilers of Bangla textbooks for classes I to X today said that they were kept in the dark about the changes to the books published by the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB).
“Wrong public perception may develop about the editors and compilers of the Bangla textbooks of classes I to X for 2017 published by the NCTB,” according to a joint statement.
The statement comes at a time when the government is facing widespread criticism for some embarrassing blunders and dropping some topics from the textbooks.
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“Against such backdrop, we are stating for all, including students, teachers and guardians that we were kept in the dark about the changes made in the textbooks,” it says.
The signatories of the statement include Professor Hayat Mahmud, Professor Niranjan Adhikari, Professor Mahbubul Haque, Professor Masuduzzaman, Professor Bishwajit Ghosh, Professor Syed Azizul Haque, Professor Shoaib Jibran, Professor Shafiul Alam, Professor Daniul Haque, Professor Shyamali Akbar, Professor Nurjahan Begum, Professor Rafiqullah Khan and Professor Soumitra Shekhar.
They were in different panels responsible for editing and compiling the textbooks.
NCTB Member (primary curriculum) Dr Mohammad Abdul Mannan earlier told The Daily Star the textbook editors and writers are not usually informed when small corrections are made in those.
"But whenever we make major changes, we inform them."
Eminent citizens and different organisations strongly condemned the anomalies in textbooks and demanded the immediate withdrawal of the “error-ridden textbooks”.
Following criticism, the education ministry made NCTB Chief Editor Pritish Kumar Sarkar and its senior expert Lana Humayra Khan officers on special duty (OSD), a post with official duties and regarded as a punishment.
Two committees have also been formed to identify the mistakes in textbooks and those responsible for the blunders.
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