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NSS flays move to amend KER

KOTTAYAM: The Nair Service Society (NSS) has warned that it ‘would go to any extend’ to halt the move to amend the provision in the Kerala Education Rules (KER) which gives the managements the right to appointment in the aided schools.

In a statement here on Sunday, NSS general secretary P.K. Narayana Panicker said Section 10 of KER stipulated the qualifications for the candidates being appointed as teachers. As per Section 11 of KER, the complete right to appoint teachers with the qualifications stipulated in Section 10 was vested with the manager.

“The NSS would not mind if the government made any amendment to Section 10. But we would not tolerate any amendment to Section 11,” he said and added that the present move to revise the education rules was part of a covert effort to bring back the provisions of the old Section 11.

Mr. Panicker alleged that there was an attempt on the part of certain quarters to corner more employment opportunities by extending the benefits of reservation to the thousands of aided education institutions in the State.

This would bring to an end the limited benefits being enjoyed by the forward communities who were grossly discriminated against in the reservation system, he said.

Mr. Panicker criticised the move to bring the aided schools under the control of the local bodies and said the move to bring the academic and administrative control of the schools under the local bodies would bring in unnecessary political interference. It would have a harmful effect on the standard of education.

The NSS chief also questioned the way the appointment of the education review committee was formed and also the recommendations of the report submitted by them.

This was part of an effort to implement a secret agenda, he alleged.

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