The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is a self-ruling association set up in 1961 by the Government of India to help and prompt the Central and State Governments on arrangements and projects for subjective change in school instruction.

The significant destinations of NCERT and its constituent units are to: attempt, advance and arrange explore in zones identified with school instruction; get ready and distribute demonstrate course books, supplementary material, bulletins, diaries and creates instructive packs, mixed media computerized materials, and so on organise pre-benefit and in-benefit preparing of instructors; create and spread imaginative instructive strategies and practices;collaborate and connect with state instructive offices, colleges, NGOs and other instructive establishments; go about as a clearing house for thoughts and data in issues identified with school training; and go about as a nodal office for accomplishing the objectives of Universalisation of Elementary Education.

Notwithstanding research, improvement, preparing, augmentation, production and dispersal exercises, NCERT is an execution office for two-sided social trade programs with different nations in the field of school training.

The NCERT likewise cooperates and works as a team with the global associations, going to outside appointments and offers different preparing offices to instructive staff from creating nations. The significant constituent units of NCERT which are situated in various areas of the nation are:

National Institute of Education (NIE), New Delhi
Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET), New Delhi
Pandit Sundarlal Sharma Central Institute of Vocational Education (PSSCIVE), Bhopal
Regional Institute of Education (RIE), Ajmer
Regional Institute of Education (RIE), Bhopal
Regional Institute of Education (RIE), Bhubaneswar
Regional Institute of Education (RIE), Mysore
North-East Regional Institute of Education (NERIE), Shillong

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