Abolition of 10th Board exam still being debated : PM

New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) Amid the controversy over the move
to scrap the tenth board examinataion, Prime Minister of India
Manmohan Singh has said it is an experiment that is still
being debated and felt no decision should be taken in haste.
"We are still debating on this issue. This is an
experiment. We should not take a decision in haste", Singh
told a group a children during an interaction organised by
CNN-IBN on the occasion of Children's Day.
He was asked whether children are not being made weak by
the decision to do away with the tenth board examination. "You
are shielding them from difficulties," a student asked.
Government had in September announced abolition of
compulsory CBSE Board exams for class X from next academic
year (2010-11) and introduction of grading system from current
year.
Asked as to why educatin was getting costlier by the day,
Singh said this was so only in private schools. In government
schools, every effort was being made to ensure that education
did not become a privilege for only the rich.
On what government was doing for children who are not in
schools and are living on roads and begging, Singh said, "it
pains me a lot. We are trying to educate all children under
the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan". (More) PTI