The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is an independent association set up in 1961 by the Government of India to help and exhort the Central and State Governments on strategies and projects for subjective change in school instruction.

The major targets of NCERT and its constituent units are to: embrace, advance and facilitate look into in ranges identified with school instruction; plan and distribute show course readings, supplementary material, pamphlets, diaries and creates instructive packs, mixed media computerized materials, and so forth organise pre-benefit and in-benefit preparing of educators; create and disperse imaginative instructive strategies and practices;collaborate and coordinate with state instructive divisions, 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 organization for respective social trade programs with different nations in the field of school training.

The NCERT additionally associates and works in a joint effort with the global associations, going to remote designations and offers different preparing offices to instructive faculty from creating nations.

The major constituent units of NCERT which are located in different regions of the country 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

Textbooks

Reading material distributed by NCERT are recommended by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) from classes I to XII, with exemptions for a couple of subjects. Around 19 school sheets from 14 states have received or adjusted the books. Online course readings can be downloaded from the epathshala site.

Activities

NCERT has a complete augmentation program in which bureaus of the National Institute of Education, Regional Institute of Education, Central Institute of Vocational Education and field consultants' workplaces in the states are occupied with exercises. A few projects are composed in provincial and in reverse regions to contact functionaries in these regions.

The board goes about as the Secretariat of the National Development Group for Educational Innovations. The board has been putting forth preparing offices, for the most part through connection projects and interest in workshops, to instruction laborers of different nations.

Contact:

National Council of Educational Research and Training
Sri Aurbindo Marg,
New Delhi-110016

EPABX: +91-11-26562188/ +91-11-26592360
Fax: +91-11-26868419