NCERT is an autonomous governmental organisation that actively contributes to the education sector in India. This organisation provides the CBSE, with textbooks, thus becoming the publishing body. In 2017 the CBSE had asked all the schools in India to adopt the NCERT textbooks and to avoid using books from other publishers. It might be because, the schools except Kendriya Vidyalaya and Jawahar Navodaya were free to use books from a different publisher other than NCERT, but there have been reports of some of these schools, taking huge amount of money, in the name of various textbooks, workbooks and guides. The cost of study at CBSE schools are little high when compared to the State government schools. So, when the tuition fee, added with the other expenses especially for the textbooks, resulted in school education being overpriced. Also, the authenticity of these textbooks is something that cannot be taken for granted. There have been reports that some school conducted some illegal experiments with living animals, with respect to the workbooks of these non-NCERT textbooks.
To avoid such lapses, the CBSE, has made it mandatory for all the schools that are affiliated under it to follow the NCERT textbooks, with the exception for some subjects. The NCERT books have the following benefits.
- Both the CBSE and the NCERT are governmental organisations, so they will have more flexible workspace.
- The NCERT strictly follows the CBSE curriculum. Primarily focusing on simple diction and clarity of the concepts.
- The NCERT textbooks are available with quality content at affordable prices.
- Large proportion of the CBSE Board Exam questions, come from the NCERT textbooks
- They are cost effective, since they help in forming the basics and the textbooks could also be used as basics for competitive exam like the PSC, UPSC, AFCAT etc.
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