Last Change:
12/24/2024
The National Curriculum and Text-Book Board Act
Year: 2018
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Education
Description
The 2018 National Curriculum and Text-Book Board Act repealed the previous Act of 1983. As the Act suggests, the Board under established under this Act holds the function of developing, improving, updating and reforming the national curriculum, syllabus and text-books. There is no mention on the applicability or any limitation on the application of the law.
Selected provisions
(1) Any such book which is not developed and published by the Board as a text-book or not approved by the Board as a text-book cannot be selected as a text-book for any school.
Provided that, however, Government may, by notification in Government gazette, exempt any school or any category of school from the application of this Section.