Balbharati (The Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production and Curriculum Research) is located in
Pune,
Maharashtra
Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...
,
India.
The Institute
The institute was established by the
Government of Maharashtra
The Government of Maharashtra is the state governing authority for the state of Maharashtra, India. It is a democratically elected government with 288 MLAs elected to the Vidhan Sabha for a five-year term.
Maharashtra has a Maharashtra Legisla ...
on 27 January 1967. This was as per the recommendations of the
Kothari Commission
National Education Commission (1964-1966), popularly known as Kothari Commission, was an ad hoc commission set up by the Government of India to examine all aspects of the educational sector in India, to develop a general pattern of education, a ...
. This is to improve the quality of textbooks for Stds. I to VIII, and to make textbooks available at a reasonable price. Balbharati institute is an autonomous body registered under the Public Trusts Act 1950 and the Societies Registration Act, 1860.
The Editorial Team
The editorial team consists of following members:
*
Vijaya Wad
* Gajanan Chawhan
* H G Narlawar
* Rajeev Tambe
* Dilip Phaltankar
* Shrikant Chougule
* Madhav Rajguru
Online books
Since students are not getting textbooks even after schools start, Balbharati put up soft copies of all its textbooks on its website, from where they can be easily downloaded. The e books from first to eighth standard are downloadable from the website of Balbharti.
Balbharati books now available online
Currently the books are available in eight languages — Marathi
Marathi may refer to:
*Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India
*Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people
*Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece
See also
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, English, Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Telugu
Telugu may refer to:
* Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India
*Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India
* Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language
** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode
S ...
, Sindhi and Gujarati. 35 books titled My District for Std III Geography for each district in the state are available on the website. Balbharati would also be publishing the STD XI and XII new syllabus from 2019-20 and 2020-21
References
External links
{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161023200619/http://www.balbharati.in/index1.htm , date=23 October 2016
Book publishing companies of India
Education in Maharashtra
Organisations based in Pune
State agencies of Maharashtra
Government agencies established in 1967
1967 establishments in Maharashtra
Publishing companies established in 1867