Following the embarrassing mistakes in this year’s school textbooks, National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) today suspended its artist-cum-designer.

Sujaul Abedin was suspended after a primary investigation report of NCTB-formed probe body, said a handout issued by the board this evening.

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Ministry officials, seeking anonymity, told The Daily Star, Sujaul was the artist who drew of a goat climbing a tree to eat mangoes in the grade I Bangla textbook which drew widespread flak. 

Earlier on Monday, the board sent two officials to ‘officer on special duty’ – a position that is without desk and portfolio – on the same ground.

The OSD officials are: Pritish Kumar Sarkar, chief editor of NCTB, and Lana Humayra Khan, senior expert of the board, said an official handout issued by the education ministry yesterday.

Besides, the secondary and higher secondary divisions of the education ministry formed a three-member probe body to find out the people responsible for the mistakes.