Do Indian education system need a common and single board of education?

Sincere thanks to Mrs. Mili Ghosh, Mr. Reena Singh, Mr. S V Vohra, Mr. Pawan Gupta, Mr. Suresh, Mr. Chandan Kumar, Ms. Sweta Srivastava, Mrs.Bhuvana, 
Mr. Neeraj Gupta, Mr. Sanjay parmar, Mr. Shrinish Agnikothri and 
Mr. I AZEEZ.

A BIG YES!!! Let me explain why?

1.By Default choice: Rarely one opts for state boards out of choice. Anyone who opts for state board has two reasons;
(i) He/She can’t afford CBSE/ICSE school fees. Financial status. (ii) There is no CBSE/ICSE school in his/her area. Poor Remote and rural amenities such as transport, no of CBSE schools like state board schools at every 10 Kms....

2.Medium of  Higher Education is in English Only:  State Board students are taught translations of all subjects in their native language not in a very effective way. When we go for higher education, we have to begin from scratch. That’s the reason 90% of the unplaced students at IITs/NITs are those who belong to state boards, they are also very poor in communication skills in English. MNCs demand English, a good level of it. One must master it if one wants to work their. MNCs provide high paying jobs that lead to higher contribution to GDP per capita, higher expenditure on nutrition, education & health. That is what development means.

3. Quality study materials:  Highly Analytical & concept building books are available in English only. State Boards deprive their students of Books like Resnick Halliday & HC Verma in physics those are considered as world class standard in Physics.  Students’t pursue on their own because they have to write board exams in their native language & questions asked mostly belong to prescribed  books and book backs. That’s the reason why droppers after 12th are mostly from state boards. This makes students to prefer to refer of their own choice according to the prescription.

4. Cycle of poverty: One was poor, so opted for state boards. state boards make sure one becomes literate but not good enough skills. Education is supposed to be a ladder, an opportunity for the poor to break the shackles of poverty & unemployment.

5. Change/Update: Every education system needs change with time. There have been massive changes in question paper pattern, marking scheme, syllabus, teaching methodology etc. in central board syllabus. Whereas State boards of states have undergone negligible changes.  One shocking example is that some state boards teach Pustak Kala ( in which students learn book binding, how to makeglue, Seriously? where as central board teach C/C++/Java.

6. Anywhere and everywhere: A child from one state to another state can continue studies without change in the flow.

7. Online Resources:  It is on rise. All quality contents are available in English. Research papers are published in English. Quality and analytical news content & editorials are available in English. Good quality literature, films, TV series are in English.  Shall we wait for someone to translate these for us with his/her prejudices?

8. Loss to Indic languages?: No, indic languages are the languages of religion, culture, art, great traditions, literature and most importantly our language of communication. One can always pursue them as a subject, so is the provision & and always should remain so. But being realist, It's important to understand that the language of science & technology is English. I urge, Let it be.It's very much true and good to have common or single board system in our country. But not true and good in regional languages and history of the state. Subjects like history and languages...There are reasons why state governments should get involved in Education policy specially, with the central government.

What are those logics behind for involving the state governments and the boards of Education.?.

1. Education is listed in the concurrent list of the India Constitution. The state government as well as the central government can make laws regarding education.
2. Government expenditure on education is not sufficient in India. Citizens should have the right to choose education board which suit their economic conditions. NCERT goes according to the biased directions to frame the curriculum and syllabus specially in history and languages. NCERT alone cannot cater the history of the states, cultural values. They have to limit in few major areas. States say we are biased. Therefore formed SCERT, SCERT includes the history of the states more and limits the whole history.
3. Education is a fundamental right of a citizen in the country whether it is for degrees or values, depends on individuals.
4. To ensure education for all it should be provided to everyone in a way that is most suitable for them. For example, if a person can not attend school/college due to some reasons there has to be provisions to provide him education. We have distant education program/boards such as NIOS for such people.
5.Indian  is a land of diverse cultures. There are provisions in India which allow the states to contitute education boards and frame its own syllabus(under the supervision of NCERT) so as to preserve regional culture,languages,religious sentiments etc of the people concerned.
6.To expose Indian students to international standards International boards(CIE,IGCSE etc.) are allowed in the country.

Disadvantages and problems of having common syllabus system in our country
Now out thoughts are on..

1. One comittee cannot possibly decide what should be taught in schools to different kind of students all over the country. Monopoly may not be good. sometimes it may lead to befall of democracy. As an example....The rich dont want their kids to study the same stuff being taught to normal students. They want to look cool. Hence we have International Baccalaureate. (on a serious note, its just to be closer to the west in case you want to go there)
2.  People in different regions are inclined to certain professions (this might sound absurd and unbelievable). We have normal 12th standard in some areas, junior college in some, and coaching for colleges in other regions. As an example from my observations,  Mumbai is full of all kinds of coaching, Andhra Pradesh concentrates on engineering, Bihar on IAS, and Delhi on CBSE boards because Delhi University admissions depend on it.
3. Other answers pointed out that Education is on the Concurrent list. So, i would like to add one more point to this. Separate states have different cultures and different heritage, so the administration wants that the students of their states should the importance of their state too along with the nation, for e.g. I am a resident of Tamilnadu, I saw the TN Board books there wasn't much difference in the courses of PCM where it really differed was the literature part, we in CBSE are taught more reputed and regarded writers whereas the Tamil literature part in this board contained the works of writers who belonged to the state and made this state proud. The TNSB wants the students to know about them, if we go to some other state they would want to teach about their heritage and culture. Precisely why there are so many board of educations and each board has a slightly different curriculum.

Some of my thoughts include:

Our strength is unity and diversity. We do have varied culture and traditions. Still we are one. We are brothers and sisters. Our Question is like Its same like asking "Why India has so many languages?" Education, as with language, are devised or developed as part of cultural, historical, geographical and socio-economic scenarios. Different educational boards provide enough space to regional feelings which we, Indians have so much grown to love! Today we seek common syllabus in Education and tomorrow in language and day after tomorrow common religion and it never ends. Then where our unity in diversity stand. While countries, which have this unified culture, language, religion etc., have multiple boards, it is imperative for India to have too. By having more boards, our students are having a choice. Incase of a single board, there will be no choice for a student who doesn’t like the curriculum of the board. Now, I will have at my hand the ability to choose among various curriculums. I can choose the best one which fits me, according to my tastes, interests and ability. These choices are not even given to angels in the heaven. But our country is giving us the choices to choose. In response to the choices offered,
what we can do in return is....

Mainly, let us focus on the standard and the quality of education a school should maintain.

Let us  not only focus on quality education but also should offer a platform for dynamic personality development of the students.

Let us create such a environment where girls or boys can study together under a single roof.

It helps to develop the mutual understanding, confidence level and equality among students.

Let’s forget classes and think of the masses.

Once schools start providing quality education at an affordable price , the rich and creamy layer must be left free to go anywhere even abroad.

There is no data to reveal that IB and IGCSE or for that sake any other board is producing quality citizens except for better spoken English.

We wish to be best part in teachership of the world. Our dreams soon shall be realised if we focus on our system of Education.

Schools those are providing fecilities are also included. Rather than the fatty salary if a school assures job security, it would be better. Just seeking for simple hike, one has to jump over here and there.

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