Central Board of Secondary Education

2,Community Centre, Preet Vihar, Delhi-110 092

ACAD/EO (COM.)/2006/                                                                               22/06/2006

                                                                                                                                Circular No.12

The Heads of all

CBSE affiliated institutions

Re.  Discontinuation of recommendation of books of private publishers    from the academic session 2005-2006 at senior secondary level.

Dear Principal,

This is in continuation of Board’s circular dated 1^st March, 2005.  You are aware that the Board recommends only NCERT books in various subjects except Communicative English, Sanskrit and French, at secondary level.  This is now further to inform that the Board has stopped the practice of recommending the books of private publishers including the Hindi medium books in different subjects at Senior Secondary level from the academic session beginning 1^st April 2005.  It has also been brought to the knowledge of the Board that Hindi edition of these books do not contain the Hindi terminology as approved by the Standing Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology.  Hence the senior school curriculum for the examination years 2007 and 2008 do not contain any recommendation for books by private publishers.

But in spite of this, many publishers are still selling their textbooks under the false claim of being recommended by CBSE, which is misleading and not based on facts.  Kindly bring this circular to the notice of your teachers and ensure that while prescribing the books in different subjects, they should not be swayed away by these false claims.

Yours faithfully,

(Vineet Joshi)

Secretary