Latest news with #KeralaGeneralEducationDepartment
Hindustan Times
05-07-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Kerala's curriculum panel approves new chapter on Governor's duties in Class 10 textbook
Thiruvananthapuram, A curriculum committee, set up by the Kerala General Education Department, has approved a new chapter in the Class10 textbook in state-run schools that explains the constitutional powers and duties of state Governors. Kerala's curriculum panel approves new chapter on Governor's duties in Class 10 textbook The meeting of the panel, headed by General Education Minister V Sivankutty, approved the new contents in textbooks of Class second, fourth, sixth, eighth and tenth, an official statement said here. The new chapter on the Governor's powers was included in the Class 10 textbook amidst an ongoing tussle between the Kerala government and Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar in the name of the display of Bharat Mata portrait. The powers and duties of the Governor are discussed in detail in the chapter titled 'Democracy: An Indian Experience' in the second volume of the social science textbook of the Class 10, according to the statement issued on Friday. The particular chapter also explains the crisis in Indian democracy, the Supreme Court's ruling that abolished the electoral bonds, and resort politics, the statement further said. The revised textbooks would reach the children before the Onam holidays. During the meeting, the curriculum committee also gave permission for holding detailed discussions in classrooms in connection with the revision of higher secondary textbooks to collect the opinions of students, teachers, and parents, and begin its compilation after organising symposiums at the district and state levels, it added. Minister Sivankutty, last month, had announced that school textbooks would soon include content explaining the constitutional powers and duties of state Governors, saying schools are the ideal place to learn the values of democracy. A tussle has been going on between Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar and the Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF government in the state for some time over the display of Bharat Mata portrait in Raj Bhavan during official functions. General Education Minister Sivankutty recently walked out of a programme attended by the Governor, citing the display of the portrait at the venue. His cabinet colleague and Agricultural Minister P Prasad also boycotted a function at Raj Bhavan, citing a similar reason. The Raj Bhavan had expressed strong displeasure over the ministers' act. This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.
Time of India
04-06-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Kerala Minister orders probe into participation of POCSO accused in school ceremony, ET Education
Advt Thiruvananthapuram, The Kerala General Education Department on Tuesday ordered a probe into an incident in which a POCSO case accused had reportedly taken part in a reopening ceremony conducted at a state-run school to media reports, the accused, also a noted vlogger, took part as a celebrity guest in the " praveshanotsavam ", the reopening ceremony in the state capital on the news reports came out, General Education Minister V Sivankutty sought an explanation from the officials concerned in this regard, the minister's office said in a Deputy Director of Education in the district has been instructed to immediately investigate the incident and submit a report, the statement Kerala government on Monday conducted "praveshanotsavam" as a grand affair across the state to welcome children back to school as a two-month-long summer vacation was Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had inaugurated the state-level reopening ceremony at a school in Alappuzha. PTI
New Indian Express
08-05-2025
- General
- New Indian Express
Bihar woman's memoir becomes lesson in Kerala class VI textbook
KOCHI: Never had 22-year-old Dharaksha Parveen, a migrant woman from Bihar's Darbhanga district, dreamt that one day a brief memoir she wrote would be made into a lesson and that too in Kerala General Education Department's Class VI Malayalam textbook. But that has happened! In the 2025-26 academic year, Class VI students throughout the state will study her life's journey from Bihar as a 10-year-old to a Malayalam teacher in the school where she mastered the language. Speaking to TNIE, Dharaksha, who arrived in Kerala 12 years ago in 2013, says, 'My father came before us. For him, Kerala has been home for the past 25 years. We now live at Muppathadam Thandirikkal Colony in a rented house.' According to her, the events that led to her writing getting selected for the Malayalam textbook happened after a small piece of news appeared in a vernacular daily in 2023. 'Narayanan Mash from Palakkad happened to come across the news. It was a story about a function held at GHS Binanipuram, where I now teach craft and also Malayalam under the Roshini project,' she says. 'Narayanan Mash contacted Jayashree teacher associated with the Roshini project at my school. She sent him my location and address. He, along with his team, came to my house and held discussions with me for an entire day. It was during the discussions that he asked me to write something in Malayalam for a book,' says Dharaksha. She agreed and wrote a piece in a letter format addressed to her friend in Bihar. 'In the letter, I talked about my life in Kerala, achievements, important events and the people here. I sent the write-up to Narayanan Mash. It was then edited and finally selected as a lesson in the Class VI Malayalam textbook after thorough scrutiny,' she adds. According to her, the friend she addressed her letter to is a girl she studied with in Class VII in Darbhanga. 'She is now married. That would have been my fate too if I hadn't come to Kerala. When I arrived and joined Class V at GHS Binanipuram, it was difficult for me to study.
