Single board at all-India level: Vikhe-Patil for dialogue

Reacting cautiously to HRD Minister Kapil Sibal's announcement that the Centre favours a single school board at all-India level, Maharashtra Education Minister Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil on Thursday said there should be a dialogue with the states on the issue.

"There is a system already in place. If the government is proposing something like this, then they should have a dialogue with the states," the minister said.

"There has been no official decision on the issue. Whatever we have learnt is from media," he said.

Unveiling his 100-day plan, Sibal has said the single board would replace various boards in the country and would hold a uniform examination for all students on the pattern of Combined Law Admission Test for admission to law institutions.