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NEW DELHI: Following an assurance by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), the Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the organisation to ensure that all Class X and XII textbooks are available by June-end. In its affidavit filed in the court of Justice B. D. Ahmed in response to public interest litigation, the NCERT submitted that of the 222 titles, 200 are already available in the market. Further, it told the court that of a print order of 4.98 crore books, 3.3 crore had already been received and were available in the market. As for complaints about books being pirated and published with many mistakes, the NCERT submitted that it had lodged complaint against three publishers -- Hitashi Publications on October 5, 2006, and Anand Book Depot and Nice Publishing Company on April 11, 2007 -- with the Economic Offences Wing of the Delhi police. The organisation submitted that by June-end all titles would be readily available in the market. The shortage, it added, was due to introduction of the National Curriculum Framework-2005 and the new syllabus of 2006 that required replacing the existing textbooks. Satisfied with the affidavit, the Court disposed of the petition. Awadhesh Chaubey, through his counsel Sugriv Dubey, had filed the PIL in April alleging that the NCERT textbooks for Class X and XII were not readily available in the market for the past three years and that "duplicate" NCERT books were being sold. These books contained several errors.
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