NUMBERS: 35,000,000

It is the number of textbooks that the Education Ministry plans to distribute among four crore students between class 1 to 10 across the country for free.

This year this project would cost the government Tk 733 crore. Since 2010, Government has been distributing free textbooks among the students of primary, secondary, Ebtedai and Dakhil madrassas and technical institutions every academic year.