The board, which has time and again asked all the schools to consider using the NCERT books, recently asked them to register with the NCERT and place their demands for the purchase of books. DH file photo
The board, which has time and again asked all the schools to consider using the NCERT books, recently asked them to register with the NCERT and place their demands for the purchase of books. DH file photo
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has now allowed its schools to open a “tuck shop” to sell National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) textbooks along the stationery material.
This comes after the board in its April circular directed the schools to ensure that parents were not forced to buy items from the “commercial shop” on their premises, in response to “parents’ complaints.”
“The schools are allowed to place indent for the purchase of the NCERT books directly through the NCERT website for distribution among their students. For this purpose, a tuck shop may be opened inside the premises of the schools,” the CBSE stated in a circular issued to all schools on August 24.
The board, which has time and again asked all the schools to consider using the NCERT books, recently asked them toregister with the NCERT and place their demands for the purchase of books.
Last year, some of the regional units of the board reportedly issued a circular to all the schools making it mandatory for them to buy the NCERT textbooks. The move drew stiff resistance from a section of private schools and the issue was also raised in Parliament.
Later on various occasions, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar said the CBSE did not make it mandatory for its schools to buy NCERT books.
He said it was only a suggestion to the schools as the NCERT books were cost effective and good.