Here’s some good news for the students preparing for the Std X examination. After paying the royalty charges to Balbharti (State’s Bureau of textbooks) under the government’s copyright policy, private publishers issued the first lot of guidebooks and study materials on Friday. However, retailers are having a tough time in meeting the demand for the books, and some of them have already ordered for a fresh stock.

According to sources, these books reached the market much later than the expected time due to the sudden introduction of the state government’s copyright policy, under which publishers need to pay a royalty to Balbharti for using its content for the books. However, what added to the students’ anxiety was the absence of relevant study material, considering this is the first year of SSC’s new syllabus. 'Old study material wasn’t useful' Amogh Kamble, a student from Andheri said, "This is the first year of the new syllabus and we’ll have to appear for the board examination in a couple of months. We cannot refer to any old study material. Until now we were only dependent on textbooks." Navneet, Chetna and Target are some of the publishers who have sent their books to the market. Customers have been asking for the books for a very long time.