The Delhi High Court has sought response of the Centre on a plea seeking quashing of a CBSE circular allegedly forcing schools to prescribe text books printed by printers empanelled with the NCERT only.<br/><br/>Justice A K Pathak issued notice to the Ministry of Human Resource and Development and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and sought their replies on the petition filed by Independent Schools Federation of India.<br/><br/>The petition filed by an advocate said, the CBSE had in a 1st April circular, issued direction to the affiliated schools to prescribe books only of those publishers which were in the panel of NCERT.