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Put off single-window system, says Chandy

Ooommen Chandy

Thiruvananthapuram: Leader of the Opposition Oommen Chandy has asked Education Minister M.A. Baby not to implement the single-window system for admission to Plus One classes in the State higher secondary stream “unilaterally” from this year, without adequate discussions and consultations.

In a letter which he handed to the Minister on Tuesday, Mr. Chandy said that if there were drawbacks in the present system of admission, steps should be taken to solve them in consultation with those concerned.

He said many seats remained vacant, the admission process was delayed and the students had to undergo tension following the implementation of the single-window system on an experimental basis in Thiruvananthapuram district last year.

It could lead to an indefinite delay in admissions, prevent the students from pursuing education in the institutions of their choice and force them to study in schools far from their homes.

He warned that the exercise could lead to the replication of the situation in the self-financing sector where uncertainty prevailed for the third year in a row.

He felt that it would only be appropriate to hold in abeyance the implementation of reforms till the subject committee of the Assembly studied them in detail and discussions were held with all concerned.

Inaugurating a dharna organised by the Nationalist Students’ Congress in front of the Secretariat on Tuesday, K. Muralidharan, president of Nationalist Congress Party State unit, asked the government to take steps to remove the concern of students over the move to implement the single-window system at the higher secondary level.

He contended that the government had not been able to obtain support for its educational policies from even those student organisations owing allegiance to it.

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