and parents will start making the choice on what suits them the best toi spoke to many senior academicians in both mumbai and nagpur but nobody wanted to comment because the project is still in a nascent stage however on condition of anonymity they welcomed the decision as it gives maharashtra a chance to to start good education with a clean slate principal of a stateaided school said that a new board with new rules will ensure that it is academically progressive and student friendly there is a rot in the current state education system and major changes are impossible because multiple layers of teacher unions political interests and lobbies are at work teacher transfers get stalled extra work gets boycotted and no one accepts blame for poor academic results he said another principal felt that both the education department and teachers are to blame for poor academic quality a new board is probably the only way out because the staffers at education department themselves have no academic inclination and some of our teachers too treat this as a clerical job she said