@@NCERT's new syllabi and textbooks have been received with warmth and enthusiasm in all quarters of India's vast and complex system. The primary users of these new textbooks are the schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). There total number is more than 8000, including about 1500 schools run by the central government under two different schemes. In addition to the CBSE, many provincial governments have adopted NCERT's new textbooks. Thus, more than 15 per cent of India's children are now studying these textbooks. NCERT has also initiated syllabus and textbook reform in all the States, some of whom have taken active measures to review and revise their existing material. For teacher training in the CBSE schools, NCERT has run several programmes through India's educational satellite, EDUSAT, which enables some of the best known scholars and experts of different subjects who were involved in the process of syllabus and textbook development to interact with classroom teachers in all regions of the country. Similar programmes have been carried out for catalying reform-oriented energies in the State Councils of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) and State-level Boards of education.
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