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Here is a relief, at least for the schools under the Central Board of Secondary Education, as the schools would now be able to place their order of NCERT books online. What they have to do is to simply login to the CBSE website and place the order.
All the books will be available online before the commencement of the academic session of the year 2017. The Ministry of Human Resource and Development has been working on the strategy to ensure the smooth supply of the books to the schools, it is learnt.
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The link on the website will be active from 15 February 2017 to 22 February 2017. The requirement of the books can be submitted one time only. On Tuesday, 14 February 2017, a review meeting was chaired by Prakash Javadekar, the Minister of Human Resouces Development, to make sure that an adequate number of NCERT books are available to all the schools affiliated to CBSE.
The greatest advantage of online books for students and parents is that they will able take print out of the note of books online and will cost them less than the market price. CBSE has already notified that only NCERT book curriculum will be taught in their schools.
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The Board also gave mild warning to the schools to stop forcing the students to buy books from private commercial publishers. It is found that many private schools push their students to purchase the book from commercial publishers and in return, schools get hefty amounts of commissions. It was also made clear to the schools that books published by the Council for Standard I to Standard XII are available fee cost on the NCERT website.
