Dinesh Kamath's Editorial that was published in Newsband

Ideal education system
National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) is the best thing that has happened to students of Navi Mumbai. NIOS, formerly known as National Open School (NOS), was established in November 1989 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. NIOS provides a number of vocational, life enrichment and community oriented besides general and academic courses at secondary and senior secondary level.
There are many students in our city who are not able to manage pressure built up by the Indian education system. NIOS comes to the rescue of such students. NIOS is meant for students who can't manage pressure created by education system. NIOS is flexible and it is an alternative for students struggling in conventional education.
Our current education system is such that if a student is weak in any one subject he is just unable to clear 10th standard or 12th standard even though he is very good in all the other subjects. This education system expects him to be good in all the subjects. This is a wrong system because a student's weakness in just one subject can ruin his entire future. An ideal education system is the one where a student is allowed to pursue the subjects he is good in and ignore the subjects which he just cannot comprehend. If a student is good in Biology let him go ahead and pursue Biology. He might one day become a Doctor. But if you insist that this student excel in Mathematics too and if the student just hates Maths and can't pass in that subject then you are preventing a Doctor from being born.
Now why does a student who wants to be a Doctor need to know Maths? Or why does a student who wants to be an Engineer need to know Biology? Here lies the flaw in the conventional education system. NIOS rectifies this mistake. NIOS allows the student to take up subjects which he likes, leave aside the subjects he doesn't like, and go ahead in life and become a somebody. While conventional education system can make a student lose his or her self-esteem, NIOS can give all the necessary boost to the self-esteem of the student.
Conventional education system creates pressure on many students. The number of students committing suicide after failing in board exam is increasing every year. The fear of missing out on a year is leading students to take such an extreme decision of ending their lives. In such a situation, NIOS has proven to be a successful option. NIOS enables students to give up subjects that don't appeal to them and look out for the alternatives to continue with their studies. Now this is an ideal education system.