New Delhi, June 26: Terming the announcements of Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal regarding scrapping the board examinations and higher education as ”confusing, impractical and directionless”, the BJP today asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to stop him from jeopardising the students’ future in the name of beating the 100-day deadline.
Articulating the BJP’s viewpoints, senior party leader Murli Manohar Joshi, who was the HRD Minister in the NDA regime, told reporters at the BJP headquarters that nothing should be done in a hurry in the name of 100-day deadline because decisions like scrapping the examinations at the national level could not be taken on the views of few individuals.
It should be done after thorough deliberations with the experts at State Education Board, State Educational Research Councils and political parties, he said.
”We are not saying yes or no to scrapping of examinations at 10th standard because there can be a debate if it should be at 10th or 12th standard. However, a decision can be taken only after following due procedures as education is a state subject and there can’t be a common policy at the federal level,” he said.
”The country is too large, wide and varied for any individual to dictate terms from Delhi and it can take place only after due procedures,” Dr Joshi, himself a teacher by profession, said.
He said the government could not abdicate its responsibility towards higher education and bring in Private Public Partnership in the form of foreign universities or hand over the professional educational system to rich capitalists.
There was no harm in international exchange but world’s best universities were not willing to come over to India, he added.
–UNI