Lieutenant Governor, R K Mathur discussed the need to develop localized study materials for schools in Ladakh with Shridar Srivastava, In-charge Director, National Council of Educational Research and Training on April 3 at Ladakh Bhawan, New Delhi.

As suggested by Dir. NCERT, L-G agreed to send the first group of teams from Ladakh to work in collaboration with NCERT to localize the existing textbooks and to create more local content, including content development in locally approved languages. He added that independent teams would also work on authentication of the texts created by the first group of teams. The first developments of textbooks may be up to the primary class level. 

Shridar Srivastava informed LG about the availability of e-content of NCERT materials through QR Code that can be made available offline to the students. He also suggested utilizing services of community radio and Doordarshan for education dissemination in far-flung areas of Ladakh.