PRAYAGRAJ, March 22 -- Even though the 2025-26 session is set to start on April 1 in secondary schools across the state, more than 1 crore students of classes 9 to 12 enrolled in over 27,000 schools affiliated with the UP Board will have to wait for at least another three months for National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) books for the new academic session.

The textbooks will be available in the market only by the end of June or the first week of July, as per board officials.

UP Board uses the republished versions of NCERT textbooks. Although NCERT textbooks are the cheapest in the country, the rate at which the UP Board publishes these very books with due permission from NCERT for UP students is even lower. This i...