Your child's Balbharti textbook might just be teaching him/her to break the most important code of academics — to never use Wikipedia as reference in educational content. Textbooks for Std X now feature a QR code after every chapter, connecting to additional reference material. What is alarming, however, is how many of these link to Wikipedia, a website that can be notoriously unreliable with facts.

Interestingly, the textbook bureau levies royalty charges on publishers of Std X guides for using content from the Balbharti textbooks. But it has no problem publishing QR codes linking to Wikipedia, instead of formulating original content. Since Wikipedia is an open source platform, this is not a copyright issue, but it's also why the website is not a reliable source of information for young students, as anyone can create or edit content there. It is unlikely that students will question the content if they are directed there by the Balbharti.