Maharashtra School Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad has said that Balbharati, the state curriculum board, has decided to dump old syllabus books weighing over 400 tonnes.

Gaikwad was responding to a question raised by legislator Arun Lad in the state Legislative Council on December 27 over the dumping of old books by the Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production and Curriculum Research, popularly known as Balbharati.