The Bombay High Court’s vacation bench on Friday said there was “no pressing urgency” at present in the PIL claiming that lower quality paper proposed to be used to print school textbooks by the Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production and Curriculum Research, popularly known as Balbharati, will affect students’ experience.

The HC said the matter can wait until regular court resumes and the respondent authorities shall consider suggestions made in the PIL by a charitable trust against the tenders for the papers.

A single judge bench of Justice Advait M Sethna was hearing the PIL by Sankalp Jeevan Charitable Trust, a non-profit organisation working in the education field, challenging Balbharati’s action to “significantly reduce and derogate the minimum standard of quality of the pa

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