Infact I have been using this site for downloading books for last two years. It is an excellent move by NCERT. Infact it was during ICDL 2004, Delhi, His Excellency, President of India http://presidentofindia.nic.in/ in his speech, had advocated making school text books free online. An extract of the same is given below: INAUGURATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES - 2004 (24-02-2004 : New Delhi ) http://presidentofindia.nic.in/scripts/sllatest1.jsp?id=282#top "..I would request all of you to evolve methodologies to share all our Digital Contents with no barriers. This will truly speak of the technology as an integrator of people. I urge all of you to pledge that we will share information of value freely to those citizens in the less privileged nations across the world.. ..School children have been experiencing difficulty in getting textbooks in time, especially for the primary and secondary classes. It will be useful to digitize and store the textbooks in the library, which can be accessed by the students whenever required. This additional facility will enable easy availability of books to the students for instant reference and study through Internet and intranet access. In India, we have the greatest wealth of publicly funded books for schools and colleges. For example the National Book Trust of India and NCERT have many books in almost all the Indian languages. If we bring these to the Digital Library with periodical updation it will enable effective implementation of Right to Education Bill for our Children. This can be an outsourced service for the educational institutions.." ----------------------------- NCERT did it. But are we playing our role to share all our Digital Contents with no barriers..? --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. On 4/30/07, madhuresh.singhal wrote:

Dear All,

NCERT has made available all text books for class I to XII in digital form. Now it is available for everyone to download/read online in PDF. You may follow NCERT website http://www.ncert.nic.in or more specifically http://www.ncert.nic.in/textbooks/testing/Index.htm

"NCERT has initiated the step towards making school textbooks available on the Internet for students and teachers. We hope through this endeavour a variety of pedagogical possibilities would open up for students and teachers throughout the country. We also hope that this effort will lead to a situation where teachers begin to adopt a more modular approach, rather than a sequential approach to teaching and learning, through access to a variety of teaching and reference material. New Textbooks are based on National Curriculum Framework 2005."

NCERT books are of high standards and are considered useful for writing various competitive exams.

Regards

Madhuresh Singhal Assoc. Res. Scientist - Inf. Sc. Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. 21 & 22, Phase 2, Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore - 560058 Phone: +91 80 28394959; Mobile 098861 82822 E-mail: madhureshsinghal@yahoo.com http://nettalk2.tripod.com/

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