NCERT
Vs Private Publishers
“This
article is NOT written to favour Private Publishers.”
We
often read in the newspapers and on social sites that schools are implementing
text books other than NCERT for making a good earning out of them. Socially
active men and women make the accusation that the schools want to earn
commissions from the Private Publishers so they go in for their text
books. Few of them have even claimed
that Private Publishers provide discount ranging from 50% to 60% upon the
printed prizes. It would be a great idea
if anyone of these socially active people join hands and open up their outlets
and make these books available to the parents every year by extending 40% to
50% discount on printed rates directly to the parents. (And thereby still make
a profit of 20% to 10% for themselves.)
We
need to come out of these narrow accusations of earning profits through
commissions, by selling Private Publishers text books etc., by the school
Principals and Sponsors and look at the issue in a broader perspective as to
the relevance or irrelevance of implementing text books published by Private
Publishers.
The
following are a few advantages & disadvantages of NCERT & Private
Publishers books :
|
NCERT
Advantages -
·
They are written by panel
of expert subject teachers.
·
They are precise.
·
They are available at very
low cost.
·
They are light in weight
& hence easy to carry.
Disadvantages
-
·
Their preciseness creates
problem for the slow learners.
·
They contain very less
illustrations and samples and exercises.
·
Availability has always
been an issue for the past 2 to 3 decades. Hope, according to the new
provisions made by CBSE things will improve in the coming years.
Private Publishers
Text Books
Advantages -
·
They are also written by
expert subject teachers.
·
They are full of
illustrations, samples, exercises, which prove to be both helpful to the
slow learners as well as challenging for the bright ones.
·
They are readily available.
Disadvantages
–
·
They are heavy in weight
and difficult to carry.
·
Due to more number of pages
their cost is high.
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Implementation
of only NCERT books has been experimented by various schools which had resulted
into the following situations :
a)
Books
were not available in the market till August and lot many children had to get
the Xerox copies which proved to be a great disadvantage and led to a situation
of becoming penny wise but pound foolish.
b)
Inspite
of the school following NCERT books it is seen that children inarbitarily buy
Private Publishers text books from the market which results into variety of
text books.
c)
Teachers
also tend to give questions and assignments from various other resources and
thereby utilize huge amount of stationery for doing so.
By
keeping the above factors schools implement Private Publishers text books which
helps students in understanding the concepts better and thereby succeed in
their pursuits of higher studies.
Private
Schools are able to start their new session from 1st of April with
all the required text books.
Sukhwant Singh Thaper
28th Feb 2017
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