Bangladesh: The New Version

The National Curriculum and Text Book Board (NCTTB) of Bangladesh, is set to reprint school textbooks with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman restored as "Father of the Nation" and Ziaur Rahman named "proclaimer of independence on behalf of Bangabandhu."

NCTTB Chairman Mohammad Yusuf Farooq told newsmen that the corrected history of the liberation struggle would be incorporated in the textbooks of history and social studies for students of classes one to nine.

The Education Ministry has already approved the textbook script, which now awaits printing for the 2008 academic session.

With the changes of government in the past, the school textbooks were printed with rewritten history of the country's liberation struggle and independence war.

News via Xinhua