Officials of the state secondary education department will conduct inspections in over 29,000 government-run, government-aided and unaided schools across the state that are affiliated with the Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UP Board). The purpose of these inspections is to strictly ensure that teaching is carried out using only authorised textbooks. UP Board headquarters in Prayagraj (File) According to officials, the initiative aims to enforce the use of 70 NCERT-based textbooks, along with 12 textbooks for Hindi, Sanskrit and Urdu that the UP Board has published after obtaining due permission from the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). UP Board secretary Bhagwati Singh has issued directives to all joint and deputy directors of education, as well as district inspectors of schools (DIOSs), to conduct special campaigns from April 1 to April 10 and again from July 1 to July 15 as part of this mission. “The objective is to ensure the availability of authorised textbooks at affordable rates in all schools so that students and parents are not subjected to an unnecessary financial burden,” …