India, July 11 -- A new and well-equipped building will be constructed soon in Pune for Balbharati as the existing structure has been declared unsafe. Maharashtra minister of state for education, Pankaj Bhoyar, informed the legislative council on Thursday that the reconstruction of the Balbharati office has been taken up on a priority basis.

Bhoyar said, "Balbharati, officially known as the Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production and Curriculum Research, was established on January 27, 1967. It is responsible for printing and distributing textbooks approved by the state government for classes 1 to 12 across Maharashtra."

Bhoyar said that the current building, constructed using load-bearing structural technology, was found to be i...