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In the wake of the proposal made by the Human Resource and Development minister Kapil Sibal to bring reforms at the higher level of education in the country and to make IITs at par with other global institutes, Digvijay Singh appeared to snipe the HRD minister by asking him to concentrate on school level rather than higher education.

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Digvijay Singh, a senior Congress leader, reiterated the fact that the need of the hour is the improvement of the level of education at school level rather than college level.

“HRD ministry should pay more attention to the development of school education at it greatly affects the literacy rate of the country. Skill development centres should be given special care as it can bring small job to those who cannot afford higher study” were the words of former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister.

He also said that he had full faith in the government that they would ponder about the existing condition in school and skill development centres and will definitely improve their condition.

Moreover the proposal made by the HRD minister yesterday for replacing multi entry-level examinations by the single aptitude test has been opposed by the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

The IITs were against the idea of completely scrapping their Joint Entrance test. Also, there was no consensus on a single entrance examination— National Aptitude Test (NAT) — during a meeting of the IIT Council in New Delhi on Friday.

However, almost all IITs favoured giving more weightage to standard 12 examinations and allowing only the top students of each state to take NAT. So, it seems that the implementation of this idea is likely not looking possible from present remarks.

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