nagpur cbse deputy secretary uc bodh has written a letter to schools warning them that would be held responsible if textbooks being used by them are off the mark the affiliation bylaw rule 151 d allows schools to use private publishers but advises extreme care while doing so and if any of these books have objectionable content then the school will have to take responsibility of such content apart from this the board will also initiate appropriate action against school management the board has specifically identified five guidelines that schools must follow while prescribing textbooks the first guideline asks schools to constitute committees for verifying that a textbook is based on principles of childcentred education activity based learning child development and content must place importance on integrating experiences of children and their sociocultural contexts and languages the second point given to schools is that textbooks must be drawn from the tenets of value education gender sensitivity and inclusive education especially in the context of disadvantaged and first generation learners the third guideline says that textbooks must be ethically culturally environmentally constitutionally and pedagogically valid in a panindia context they must not contain anything objectionable to any religion culture gender class or community and be free from errors of all kinds writes bodh the fourth guideline says that content must proceed in a systematic manner with graded order of difficulty the last guideline mentions that over dependence of teachers on books promotes rigidity and hampers exploration by students therefore the ncf2005 recommended plurality of textbooks as well as other learning aids as per the need of a school in the local context schools therefore are advised to procure a sufficient number of good textbooks for each class for the school library