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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 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 Physical Science Study Committee (PSSC) was inaugurated at a 1956 conference at MIT to review introductory physics education and to design, implement, and monitor improvements. It produced major new physics textbooks, instructional movies, and classroom laboratory materials, which were used by high schools around the world during the 1960s ...
The school currently runs classes from Nursery to Class 10th and has 439 students. The school is affiliated to the Jammu & Kashmir Board of Secondary Education (JKBOSE) with its syllabus structured around NCERT books. The school has a well-developed infrastructure including a science laboratory and a multi-purpose auditorium.
The main subjects taught during this stage include mathematics, science, social science, languages (usually English and a regional language), and physical education. Education from class 1 to 4 is classified as lower primary education (LP) and class 5 to 7 as upper primary (UP) education.
Rastogi is a member of Fellow of Academy of Zoology and was also a member of Textbook Evaluation Committee, NCERT, New Delhi. She was a member of academic staff of Zoology, Meerut College, Meerut during 1961–1967, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. She has been writing books for over six decades.
However, according to former Indian science and technology minister Kapil Sibal, India is lagging in science and technology compared to developed countries. [4] India has only 140 researchers per 1,000,000 population, compared to 4,651 in the United States. [4] India invested US$3.7 billion in science and technology in 2002–2003. [5]