Class 6 NCERT Textbooks Awaited, City Schools Rely on Bridge Course, Old Material
Sophiya Mathew | 8 July 2024 | The Indian Express
At 5 pm on Friday, a Class VI student stood in front of Dhingra Pustak Bhandar at Jhilmil Colony and waited to hear if her textbooks had arrived. After attending to customers, the bookstore owner turned to her and repeated the news she had been hearing for many days — the books were not available in the market as of now.
The student, who studies in Kendriya Vidyalaya NFC Vigyan Vihar, said, “In school, we are being taught from the old NCERT books.”
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) textbooks for Classes 6 and 3 have been newly developed in line with the National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF-SE 2023) and the New Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
The academic session started in April, and students returned to classrooms this month after summer vacations….