Shri
Upendra Kushwaha, Minister of State, Ministry of Human Resource Development,
Government of India has launched a NCERT’s Web portal for supply of textbooks
to schools and individuals in New Delhi today. The portal will ensure better distribution
of textbooks across the country and will also address the apprehensions, on the
part of schools and parents, regarding unavailability of NCERT textbooks. The
schools will be able to log on to the portal, by entering their respective Boards’
affiliation numbers and other details, till 8th September 2017 for
placing their orders for the session 2018-19. The Web Portal can be accessed at
www.ncertbooks.ncert.gov.in.
At
the time of placing the orders, the schools are not required to make the
payment; the payment can be made just before the supply. The schools will also
have the option of directly procuring textbooks either from their nearest NCERT
vendors or from the Regional Production-cum-Distribution Centres (RPDCs) of the
NCERT’s located at Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Guwahati, and Bengaluru.
Very
soon the portal will also be opened to the individual buyers. They can place
their orders by login in onto the portal, and books will be delivered at their
doorsteps with nominal postal charges. The portal will also enable the buyers
to track the status of their respective orders placed with NCERT. The textbooks
will also continue to be sold at the Retail Sales Counters located at the
NCERT’s headquarters in Delhi; at its Regional Institutes of education (RIEs)
Ajmer, Bhopal Bhubaneswar, Shillong, and Mysuru; and at its Regional
Production-cum-Distribution Centres (RPDCs) based in Ahmedabad, Kolkata,
Guwahati and Bengaluru.
The
NCERT textbooks can also be downloaded, free of cost, from the NCERT’s website www.ncert.nic.in; one
can access the digital versions of NCERT’s textbook by logging onto
‘epathshala’ or through mobile applications. NCERT also gives copyrights to
different States/Union Territories for printing of its textbooks. Fifteen
States and UTs have been given copyright for the session 2017-18.
Shri
Anil Swarup, Secretary,
School
Education & Literacy, Smt. Rina Ray, Special Secretary School Education
& Literacy,
Shri R.K. Chaturvedi, Chairman CBSE, Dr. Hrushikesh Senapaty,
Director, CBSE were also present on the occasion.
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