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Samacheer Kalvi
Samacheer Kalvi is related to many things like Admission procedure for Professional Courses (Entrance Exam or no?), Fees to be collected in Schools, Which Board for + 2 etc. MK Iyer was bound by a Court Order to implement it over a period of 6 years but he rushed to print the books for all the classes in one go and so this may in the end be one more of his....and if 200 Crores is meant only to print his face in the text books then that money has to be recovered only from him!
Just think as to why there should be so many Boards when the syllabus is only one?
If Samacheer is frozen by the books printed by him and if the SC passes another Order by next year that all admissions to professional courses has to happen only through an All India Entrance Exam (There is already one such Order for Medical Admission!) then all our students will become laggards (they already are in IIT, IAS, CAT etc) and all the positions in the professional courses here will be taken by students from Andhra, Kerala etc (but not Karnataka!).
The quality of syllabus in urban TN is very good with about 40% students in CBSE and Matric up to 10th. About 10 years back the students jumped from CBSE to Matric Board in +2 and now all of CBSE and Matric are jumping to State Board to improve their prospect (not knowing that things can change aburptly by a Court Order or a MCI notification or by whims and fancies of Kapil Sibals). These things happened not because of the qualitative assessment of the Syllabus but as a sequel to the rat race for professional course admission. The Tamilnadu Politicians want the prospect for the State Board to be high and for it the reason they say is that it alone caters to the rural Tamilnadu. If JJ is seeing this as not delivering to rural Tamilnadu (Can syllabus and book alone deliver? Doesn't it need smart class room infrastructure?) then she should have abandoned Samacheer Kalvi. If she has meant to abuse MK Iyer then she could have bested in it by distributing the books with disfigured photographs of the hero of Semmozhi and Samacheer Kalvi. But neither has happened.
There is no set-back to JJ till date in SC. The SC has only extended the dead line set by HC to give itself time on this matter. The matter is going to come again for hearing on 26th and my information is that the Government is ready to reopen the schools even by January next year, if necessary, to give itself time to sort out all the issues. SC will be under pressure for such stand by the executive Government.
Let us wait and watch but still I feel that Hon'ble intent is not apparent anywhere from any party in this issue. It is all only vested interest. But aren't the students enjoying their days without the books? What harm to them if Tamilnadu Government also drops Board exam for 10th?
Samacheer Kalvi is just not a political issue. It is an issue that has to be resolved in SC only and any Order that SC gives against the popular position in Tamilnadu will not be honored by the popular Government in Tamilnadu! For instance, many High Courts in India gave verdict that those with MPhil and PhD will not qualify for a college teacher without passing the NET exam conducted by UGC and CSIR. No college and University in India follows it. The Sc is hearing the appeal and if it concurred with HC Orders, than again it will not be honored. SC knows that it is not a executive body!Hon'able CM Jaya unnecessarily made this "Samacheer Kalvi" as a hot political issue and nearly about 12 million school children and their parents are suffering in the past 45 days without any books and proper teaching.
Samacheer Kalvi is related to many things like Admission procedure for Professional Courses (Entrance Exam or no?), Fees to be collected in Schools, Which Board for + 2 etc. MK Iyer was bound by a Court Order to implement it over a period of 6 years but he rushed to print the books for all the classes in one go and so this may in the end be one more of his....and if 200 Crores is meant only to print his face in the text books then that money has to be recovered only from him!
Just think as to why there should be so many Boards when the syllabus is only one?
If Samacheer is frozen by the books printed by him and if the SC passes another Order by next year that all admissions to professional courses has to happen only through an All India Entrance Exam (There is already one such Order for Medical Admission!) then all our students will become laggards (they already are in IIT, IAS, CAT etc) and all the positions in the professional courses here will be taken by students from Andhra, Kerala etc (but not Karnataka!).
The quality of syllabus in urban TN is very good with about 40% students in CBSE and Matric up to 10th. About 10 years back the students jumped from CBSE to Matric Board in +2 and now all of CBSE and Matric are jumping to State Board to improve their prospect (not knowing that things can change aburptly by a Court Order or a MCI notification or by whims and fancies of Kapil Sibals). These things happened not because of the qualitative assessment of the Syllabus but as a sequel to the rat race for professional course admission. The Tamilnadu Politicians want the prospect for the State Board to be high and for it the reason they say is that it alone caters to the rural Tamilnadu. If JJ is seeing this as not delivering to rural Tamilnadu (Can syllabus and book alone deliver? Doesn't it need smart class room infrastructure?) then she should have abandoned Samacheer Kalvi. If she has meant to abuse MK Iyer then she could have bested in it by distributing the books with disfigured photographs of the hero of Semmozhi and Samacheer Kalvi. But neither has happened.
There is no set-back to JJ till date in SC. The SC has only extended the dead line set by HC to give itself time on this matter. The matter is going to come again for hearing on 26th and my information is that the Government is ready to reopen the schools even by January next year, if necessary, to give itself time to sort out all the issues. SC will be under pressure for such stand by the executive Government.
Let us wait and watch but still I feel that Hon'ble intent is not apparent anywhere from any party in this issue. It is all only vested interest. But aren't the students enjoying their days without the books? What harm to them if Tamilnadu Government also drops Board exam for 10th?
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