The 10-member coordination committee that was established to examine and amend National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) textbooks has been formally dissolved in response to mounting criticism.
On Saturday, Yanur Rahman, Senior Assistant Secretary of the Secondary and Higher Education Division of the Ministry of Education, signed an office order disclosing this information.
The order did not specify the reasons for disbanding the committee. However, sources indicate that the previous Awami League government introduced controversial subjects in secondary and higher secondary textbooks. Some chapters were accused of promoting anti-cultural and anti-religious values.
On September 21, the government formed a 10-member coordination committee for the revision and amendment of all textbooks prepared and published by the NCTB.
Dr. KM Kabirul Islam, Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Education, has been appointed as the convener, with Ianur Rahman, Senior Assistant Secretary of the Secondary and Higher Education Division, serving as the member secretary.
The other members of the committee include education researcher Rakhal Raha, Prof Kamrul Hasan Mamun from the Department of Physics at Dhaka University, Prof Mohammad Azam from the Bengali Department, Associate Prof Samina Luthfa Nitra from the Department of Sociology, Additional Secretary Masud Akhtar Khan from the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education, NCTB Chairman Prof Dr AKM Riazul Hasan, NCTB Curriculum Committee Member Prof Raviul Kabir Chowdhury, and NCTB Primary Curriculum Member Prof AFM Sarwar Jahan.
