Bhubaneswar has been chosen as one among the eight major cities to have vendors of NCERT books across the country from where CBSE affiliated schools can purchase NCERT books for academic session 2017-18.
In its latest circular, the board informed the schools that NCERT has made available eight vendors across India, which includes Bhopal, Ahmedabad, Ajmer, New Delhi NCERT headquarters, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Mysore and Shillong for purchasing books. The circular further states that there will be 680 empanelled distribution vendors of NCERT across the country who will produce books in bulk and adequate numbers. “NCERT will be printing and supplying adequate quantity of books for all the classes. The books will be made available with the vendors in Bhopal, Ahmedabad, Shillong, New Delhi, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Ajmer and Mysore,” reads the circular issued to CBSE affiliated schools in Bhopal. The information came after the CBSE asked all schools affiliated to it to use only NCERT books from the academic session 2017-18.