New NCERT Books: New NCERT books are coming for these classes, now preparations are being made to teach in a new way!

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has started preparations to bring books of four more classes for the session 2025-26. Based on the National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF-SE), new books for classes 3 and 6 will come first in 2024-25 and books for four classes will come next year. NCERT has developed 79 primers in the prescribed languages ​​of various states and union territories, with these short books one can start learning any language. These primers are as per the National Education Policy 2020 and promote education in the native language. NCERT Director Prof. Dinesh Prasad Saklani says that 79 primers have been prepared in different languages ​​and a total of 121 are to be made in the first phase, this primer is the initial initiative to learn any language. A primer is an introduction, which is the first step in learning any language. These primers are being prepared under the new education policy.

Soon the remaining 42 primers will also be ready, work on which is going on at a fast pace. he/she said that NCERT has made preparations to bring new books for four classes in 2025-26 i.e. next year. Pro. Saklani says that new books for classes 4, 5, 7 and 8 will come and recently NCERT has signed an agreement with Amazon so that people can order books even sitting at home.

What is NCERT Primer?

Primer helps in reading and writing along with letter recognition through scientific method. Children also get to know about the cultural aspects of any state. Along with the sounds, alphabets, words and syntax of their languages ​​and mother tongue, children also acquire basic knowledge of the official language, civilization and culture of the respective state.

With the aim of providing teaching material to students in their mother tongues at the initial stage of education and providing them an opportunity to study in their own language, the Union Ministry of Education has launched Primers of Indian Languages. These also include primers on the languages ​​spoken by the tribals. Locally prevalent languages ​​have been included.

There should be no shortage of books next year:

This year new books for classes 3 and 6 came and initially there was a shortage of books. But now NCERT will publish more books than before. Besides, new experiments are also being done to ensure that people can easily get books. Original books of NCERT will now be on e-commerce platform.

An important agreement has been signed between NCERT and Amazon Seller Services Private Limited in this regard. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had made a big announcement a few days ago saying that in the coming year, NCERT will publish a total of 15 crore books of all classes, which will be three times more than before. Currently about 5 crore books are published every year.