New Delhi, May 7 -- Even as the academic session began over a month ago, NCERT is running against time to bridge the demand-supply gap for its textbooks, with only just over half of the planned books printed so far.

NCERT, which has rolled out revised textbooks for Classes 3 to 9 under the new curriculum framework, had planned to print nearly 15 crore books for the 2026-27 academic session. However, only around 7 to 8 crore copies have been printed till now, officials confirmed.

Responding to the query about the demand and supply gap, a senior official in the Ministry of Education said, "We hope in the month of May we will be able to print as many books. NCERT has planned to print about 15 crore books They have printed about 7-8 crore b...