Bhubaneswar:  The Democratic Teachers' Organisation (DTO) has flayed the State Mass Education Department's recent directive on doing away with the Class VII Board Examinations and abrogation of pass-fail results till Class VIII.

Exhorting the teachers, students and guardians to raise a united protest against such an anti-education and devastating move, DTO president Bibhuti Bhusan Nayak lambasted that it was a suicidal attempt of the government-run education system at the cost of killing poor tiny tots' inherent libido-sciendi instinct and on the other hand, boosting up the public school system and gradual privatisation of the whole state education system.

According to Nayak, Odisha already being an undeveloped state with less literacy rate, has paved the path for the students by this new education policy not to show anymore interest in studies as earlier the students used to learn by heart something that was better than nothing in fear of failing in the examinations, but now they would give a damn to the academics and knowledge-gaining spree.

Since the implementation of the National Education Policy-1986, primary education is at the receiving end hitherto, the organization rued.

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