Expensive textbooks: Are schools forcing private books on NCERT? NHRC issued notices to Centre, States.

The National Human Rights Commission has issued notices to the Union Ministry of Education, Central Board of Secondary Education and chief secretaries of all states and Union Territories over allegations that private schools are prescribing expensive textbooks from private publishers in violation of norms.A bench headed by NHRC Member Priyank Kanongo took notice of a…

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NCERT has expedited printing of new textbooks for class 9 amid supply gap. Here’s how to access free e-books.

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on Friday said it has accelerated the printing of Class IX textbooks on a “warfare basis” to address the temporary mismatch between supply and demand following the rollout of the NEP 2020-linked syllabus.In an official statement, NCERT said it has released a fresh set of Class…

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