Kerala: Schools rush for NCERT books

KOCHI: Following the directive of the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development making NCERT books mandatory for all CBSE classes, the CBSE has now given time till Wednesday (February 22) for schools to raise an online indent for the required books. Schools in the state are rushing to comply in the short deadline. So far most of the CBSE schools in the state have been prescribing textbooks of private publishers till Class VIII. However, in the light of the new directive, this will have to be discontinued.

However, the CBSE has made it clear that NCERT will be printing and supplying adequate quantity of NCERT textbooks for all classes (from I to XII) through its empanelled 680 distribution vendors spread across the country. The NCERT books will also be available at NCERT sale counters at Ahmedabad, Ajmer, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Mysore, Shillong and NCERT headquarters in Delhi. The link for raising the online indent for NCERT books class-wise and title-wise for the entire school is www.cbse.nic.in. 

Schools will have to login using existing credentials and place their demands within the deadline of February 22. “We never expected to do it at such short notice. In fact we had finalized the textbooks by publishers for classes up to VIII for the coming academic year and suddenly now the direction of the MHRD has come. We are racing against time to do it,” said a teacher of a Kochi school.