Government to purchase textbooks worth Tk 489 crore
The government will purchase 112 million 1,474 textbooks for the next academic year to distribute free textbooks to primary and secondary level students. The total cost of this will be 489 crore 25 lakh 28 thousand 926 taka. Separate proposals in this regard were approved in the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Government Procurement held virtually today (September 21) at noon under the chairmanship of Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal. After the meeting, Additional Secretary of the Cabinet Division Md. Abdul Barik told reporters that two proposals have been raised for the approval of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs and 11 proposals have been raised for the approval of the Cabinet Committee on Procurement. Among the purchase proposals, three are from the Ministry of Industries, three from the Ministry of Commerce,…