Download NCERT textbooks through an app now

Students can download National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) text books free from mobile app. Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani on Monday announced that soon a mobile application would be launched to enable students to download all NCERT textbooks for free. “On July 17, under the banner of the NCERT, we will unveil a mobile app which will enable students to download all NCERT books from class I to XII for free,” Irani said.

Irani, who inaugurated the National Conference for Yoga Teachers, dedicated to the nation a syllabus and course material on yoga for class VI to X prepared by the NCERT and yoga training modules for teacher education programmes at the level of Diploma, B. Ed or M. Ed degrees.

In December, a national competition called “Kala Utsav” would be held to promote regional arts, crafts, music and dance. The yoga teachers’ meet will discuss yoga for holistic development, for specially-abled children.