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KPCC forms panel on book

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Brainstorming: A meeting of the United Democratic Front in progress in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) has appointed an 11-member expert committee to study the Kerala Curriculum Framework and the Class VII social science textbook.

The committee would be headed by M.G.S. Narayanan, historian. The members are P.C. Cyriac, former Additional Chief Secretary, Tamil Nadu, K.S. Radhakrishnan, Vice-Chancellor of Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Prof. Hridayakumari, Jaleel, former Director, State Council for Education, Research and Training, G. Valsala, former Principal, Government Training College, George Onakoor, former Director, State Institute of Children’s Literature, P.V. Krishnan Nair, former secretary, Sahitya Akademi, Sreedevi, former Principal, Government Training College, U. Muhammed, former Principal, Farooq College, Kozhikode, and V. Vasudevan, former Regional Director, Indira Gandhi National Open University.

KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala, who announced the 11-member panel at a press conference here on Tuesday, said the committee would hold its first sitting here on July 11 and 12. He said all those nominated had given their consent to be a member of the committee.

Leader of the Opposition Oommen Chandy has said that all reforms brought in by the present government in the educational sector are detrimental to the student community. He was speaking at a function organised to mark the culmination of a 14-day fast staged by the Kerala Congress (Jacob) in front of the Secretariat on Tuesday demanding withdrawal of controversial textbooks.

He said the textbooks introduced for Classes 1, III, V, and VII had portions which rejected religion, fomented communal enmity and injected communist politics. The Class VII textbook was the worst.Mr. Chandy and Kerala Congress(M) leader K.M. Mani offered lime juice to Vakkanad Radhakrishnan and Johny Sebastian to mark the end of the fast.

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