The full form of NCERT is National Council of Educational Research and Training. It is an autonomous organisation set up in 1961 by the Government of India, aiming to assist and advise the Central as well as the State Governments on policies and programmes for qualitative improvement in school education. A few, but major goals of NCERT are as follows:
To gear up, encourage and correlate research in areas connected with school education
To put together and publish textbooks, supplementary material, newsletters, journals, digital materials, and other study materials.
To organise pre-service and in-service training of teachers along with developing and distributing innovative educational techniques and practices
The function of NCERT is to conduct and support educational research and to offer training in educational research methodology.