sentences:  Incidentally, Vidya Bharati used to have an associated National Academic Council with educationists, which enjoyed the trust of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).By the early 1990s, the network had grown to 5,000 schools and by 2003, to about 14,000 schools with 1.7 million pupils.This expansion was facilitated by the growing demand for education in India and the disaffection with the state school system.