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A day after Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal mooted the idea of doing away with state boards for Class X exams in the country and instead came up with a single board for Class XII,former UGC chairman and the chairman of the steering committee of National Curriculum Framework,Prof Yashpal,said there is no problem if the state boards exist.
Yashpal,who was in Kolkata on Friday,said that in his recommendations regarding the National Curriculum Framework 2006 he had suggested the abolition of traumatic board exams,but not to do away with the state boards. It is possible to have different boards in the country and I did not recommend any such initiative, he said,adding that the state boards can exist even when the examinations are made optional for the students.
If students are to continue with the same school in Class XI & XII what is the point of taking the board exams, said Yashpal,insisting that the schools can go ahead with the assessment process which they have been following till Class IX.
Yashpal was speaking to the media on the sidelines of an interactive session with various vice-chancellors at the University of Calcutta on Friday.
Various state governments,including the West Bengal government,have dubbed this move of doing away with the state boards as an attempt at over-centralisation of school education.
On the issue of a disparity in the terms of assessment of the academic parameters across a well-governed and an ill-governed school,Yashpal said there will be no disparity and a better institution will remain better.
He suggested that the infrastructure of various government schools should be upgraded.
He also suggested that some alternative plan of evaluation will have to be there for students who cannot continue after Class X.
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