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The platform offers a slew of educational resources, including NCERT textbooks for classes 1-12, audio-visual resources by NCERT, periodicals, supplements, teacher training modules and a variety of other print and non-print materials. These materials can be downloaded by the user for offline use with no limits on downloads.
Those who wish to adopt the textbooks are required to send a request to NCERT, upon which soft copies of the books are received. The material is press-ready and may be printed by paying a 5% royalty, and by acknowledging NCERT. [11] The textbooks are in color-print and are among the least expensive books in Indian book stores. [11]
The second quadrant is an e-content which could include e-books, illustrations, Case studies, Open source content, reference links, further reading sources, etc. [12] The third quadrant is about clearing students' queries where students can interact with each other and faculty; any student or faculty can answer a student’s question.
The college has a library, housed in a newly constructed building, and about 56,000 books in addition to subscriptions to local, national and international magazines, journals and other periodicals. Some departments also have departmental libraries. [2] Other academic facilities include a study center for Indira Gandhi Open University. [3]
The poem Sabse Khatarnak by the Hindi poet Pash was included in the NCERT textbook for 11th standard Hindi students in 2006. In 2017, the BJP government affiliated RSS tried to remove it but failed. [25] [26] The NCERT made two controversial changes to the class XII political science textbook ‘Politics in India Since Independence’ in 2017.
The institute library harbors over 70,000 books on various disciplines. Apart from the books, the library houses for M.Ed. dissertations, Ph.D thesis, all in-house publications of Institute and several NCERT publications. The library is completely automated and uses open source automation software.
M.Sc.Ed (Life Science, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics) will take 6 years; One Year DCGC (Diploma in Guidance & Counseling)- certification is done by NCERT; Pre-Ph.D course in Education- one semester (RIE, Bhubaneswar is declared as a nodal centre for Education as a discipline under Utkal University, Bhubaneswar).
Distortion of history in the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) textbooks has been frequently observed under the BJP governments. [11] [12] G. N. Devy writes, "the discipline of history is so rich now in its knowledge of the past that Hindutva’s speculative historiography, though imposed upon learners through the NCERT, can hardly make a dent in it."