The Maharashtra State Board announced the change in syllabi for Std VII and IX in January this year. While the change is to be implemented from the coming academic year, the new textbooks for Std IX haven't reached the market yet and it has got students and parents worried.

The syllabus change was implemented with the intention of more application-based learning and less by rote. Balbharti, the Maharashtra state bureau of textbook production and curriculum research based in Pune, is not yet ready with new textbooks. It is not yet known which subjects have undergone a change and how much.