The pre-primary level students from five ethnic minority groups will get books in their native language in the upcoming year. A total of 24000 books will be distributed among them.Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid disclosed it to the reporters while visiting the textbook printing press at the city`s Matuail area on Sunday.A total of 9,703 visually impaired students will also get the Braille books.For the first time, the NCTB is printing Braille books for the blind students of primary to secondary level, said the education minister.He also said that children of five ethnic minorities will get the textbooks in their own mother tongue on the first day of the new academic year. A total of 36 crore 21 lakh 82 thousand and 245 copies free of cost text books to be distributed from primary to secondary level on 1st January have already been published, up by 2 crore 84 lakh 34 thousand 273 over the previous year’s. Informing that the textbooks will be sent to the school within next fifteen days, Nahid said “already 70-80 per cent books have reached the schools and it is expected that all the books would be sent to the school within next 15 days.” As per the agreement with the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), three works of the primary level text books have been given to the foreign organizations. The rest of the books are printed through the local organizations, Nahid said.