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Call to streamline Public Education Department

Staff Reporter

A major issue to be discussed at the conference is the changes in the Kerala Educational Rules with focus on comprehensive development of the Public Education Department.

KOZHIKODE: The Kerala Education Department Ministerial Staff Union has suggested a number of measures to streamline the functioning of the Public Education Department.

P.A. Pious, president of the union, and T.N. Balan, general secretary, in a statement here on Wednesday said the 23rd conference of the union being held in Kozhikode from May 11 to 12 would discuss in detail the steps needed to streamline the department.

He said a demand of the union was to strengthen the administrative section of the department so that the academic scenario too would improve in the process.

A major issue that would be discussed at the conference was the changes in the Kerala Educational Rules (KER) with focus on comprehensive development of the Public Education Department.

It was pointed out that it was more than four decades since the KER was framed and though the State had been lauded for its public education system, a number of changes not necessarily healthy had crept into the system.

The public education scenario was now beset with a number of problems.

The increase in the number of CBSE, ICSE and unaided schools had become a threat to the public education system that was a constitutional guarantee.

While different commissions studied the problem and suggested changes in the KER nothing concrete had emerged.

Now a committee headed by C.P. Nair had been vested with the responsibility of suggesting changes for improving the Public Education Department and the union wanted the Government to initiate urgent measures based on the report.

Plus Two section

Another demand was that the Plus Two section ought to be made part of the public education system.

The printing and distribution of school textbooks must be carried out in an efficient manner.

Even when private agencies were involved in the process, the Education Department ought to have total control of the process, it added.

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