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Court intervention hit education reforms: VS

PALAKKAD: Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan said that a law brought in by the government to ensure reservation and merit in self-financing professional colleges could not be taken forward because of the intervention of the judiciary — without understanding the social realities in the State.

Inaugurating the State-level school reopening festival and free distribution of textbooks at Malampuzha Government Vocational Higher Secondary School here on Monday, the Chief Minister said the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government wanted to ensure reservation and merit in the admission to the professional courses. The government was duty-bound to ensure higher education to the poor and economically weaker sections. The government wanted to follow an educational policy that ensured social justice, merit and quality education. But the court had interfered in the law-making process which prevented the government from implementing some of its provisions. He said the policy being followed in the admission to higher secondary schools was drafted with this aim. An appeal by two managements against the centralised admission policy (single-window system) for higher secondary school was not considered by the court. Under a new policy, scholarships of Rs.5,000 each to 10,000 higher secondary students were given.

The Chief Minister distributed free textbooks to students up to eighth standard.

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