State boards can exist: Yashpal

A day after Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal mooted the idea of doing away with state boards for Class X exams and instead,come 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 in Kolkata on Friday that there is no problem if the state boards exist. Yaspal said 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 students.