Primary, secondary students get over 6cr new textbooks
Primary and secondary level students today, the first day of the New Year, got over six crore copies of new textbooks at free of cost across the country.
On the first day of the year, 6 crore 8 lakh 19 thousand and 44 books were distributed nationwide simultaneously in primary and secondary schools. Of these, 441 books at primary and secondary school levels have been revised.
Out of nine crore six lakh 40 thousand and 415 textbooks in Bengali and English versions for classes one to five and for ethnic groups, a total of four crore 63 lakh 86 thousand 887 have been distributed so far this year.