Where the real syllabus, the free textbooks and the child-safety rules actually live. A signpost, not a recommendation list.
Parents ask us which app or website to trust. Often the honest answer is that the Government of India already publishes the thing they are looking for, free, in many languages — and nobody told them it existed.
So this page does something different from a recommendation list. It does not rate anything. It tells you which body publishes what, so you can go to the source instead of to somebody's blog post about the source.
Run by the Ministry of Education with NCERT and CBSE. Textbooks, video, interactive content, virtual labs and teacher courses, from the foundational stage to secondary. Supports 36 Indian languages and is used by nearly every state and union territory. Free, and much of it opens without an account. It also carries accessibility features — text-to-speech, and a dyslexia-friendly mode.
If you only look at one thing on this page, look at this. diksha.gov.in
The National Council of Educational Research and Training writes the textbooks and the National Curriculum Frameworks — the Foundational Stage framework and the School Education framework — which are the documents that decide what "competency-based learning" actually means in an Indian classroom. If you have ever wondered why the syllabus changed, the answer is in these.
ncert.nic.in · its technology arm CIET runs the platforms above: ciet.ncert.gov.in
ePathshala is NCERT's digital textbook portal for Classes 1–12 in several languages, with a small mobile app. PM eVIDYA puts one class per DTH television channel for Classes I–XII, with QR codes leading back into DIKSHA — genuinely useful where bandwidth is not. NISHTHA is the teacher-training programme, including a module set on foundational literacy and numeracy.
All three are reached through DIKSHA and CIET-NCERT.
The government's own children's publisher — inexpensive titles in many Indian languages, and the body behind the big book fairs. nbtindia.gov.in
Naming them because the bodies are real and worth knowing, but not linking them, because we could not reach either when we checked in August 2026 — and a link we know is broken is worse than none.
NROER (nroer.gov.in) is NCERT's National Repository of Open
Educational Resources: openly licensed material a school or parent may legally copy, translate and print.
The National Digital Library of India (ndl.gov.in) is a very large collection run
by IIT Kharagpur under the Ministry of Education. Both timed out for us; they may well work for you, and we will
link them the moment our automated check says they are up.
One that is not government, and worth knowing anyway. StoryWeaver is run by Pratham Books, a non-profit rather than a ministry. Thousands of children's stories, free to read or download, openly licensed, in a very large number of Indian languages. For reading in a child's mother tongue it is still the best single place to start.
A statutory body under the Commissions for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005, which monitors how the POCSO Act, the Juvenile Justice Act and the Right to Education Act are actually implemented. It publishes guidelines and runs complaint mechanisms. ncpcr.gov.in
Run by I4C under the Ministry of Home Affairs, with a specific track for cybercrime against women and children, and the option to report anonymously. This is where an OTP fraud, a fake-profile approach or online harassment should actually be reported — the thing our Scam Detective cases are trying to prepare a family for. cybercrime.gov.in
Where the policy itself sits, including NEP 2020. education.gov.in · wcd.gov.in
An honest warning about government links. These sites are authoritative, but they are not
always reachable. While checking this page we found one refusing connections outright, one serving only a redirect,
and one whose security certificate covers ncpcr.gov.in but not www.ncpcr.gov.in —
so the www. version can raise a browser security warning.
That is why every link here points at the plain domain with no www., and why
our build now checks them automatically rather than trusting that they still work. If one is down when you try it,
it is usually the site, not you — try again later.
We are not affiliated with any of these bodies, and none of them has endorsed this app. No affiliate links; nobody pays to appear here.
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