More than 40 million students are ready to get about 354.29 million textbooks on January 1 of next year.
The government is going to celebrate the National Textbook Festival on the first day of new year, as the ninth consecutive time.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will formally inaugurate free textbook distribution programme for the academic year 2018 on Saturday.
According to BSS, Sheikh Hasina will formally open the free textbook distribution programme by handing over books of primary and secondary levels to students at a function at Ganabhaban at 10 am on Saturday.
An additional 71,93,369 textbooks were printed for the students of next academic year as the number of students increased by 10,70,966 this year.
Referring to the government's decision to distribute free textbooks, experts said this has reduced the rate of school dropouts and increased the number of students at primary and secondary levels.
The present government started distributing free textbooks from 2010 academic year.
