CM reviews implementation of J.B.Koshy Commission recommendations

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Tuesday reviewed the advancement made successful implementing the recommendations of the J.B. Koshy Commission, which was appointed to survey the educational, economical and payment issues of Christian minorities successful the state. Seventeen departments person afloat implemented the recommendations, portion enactment has been taken connected 220 recommendations and sub-recommendations. The respective departments person begun the process to taxable 7 recommendations for the information of the cabinet. The State authorities has considered 284 recommendations and 45 sub-recommendations submitted by the commission. As per the CM’s assessment, enactment has been completed rapidly connected issues that tin beryllium considered nether the existing laws. He issued directions to the officials acrophobic to instantly instrumentality decisions connected issues that request to beryllium discussed with different departments and instrumentality the committee report. The recommendations that cannot beryllium implemented besides person to beryllium identified portion implementing the remainder without immoderate delay, helium said. The J.B.Koshy Commission had submitted its study to the State authorities successful May 2023. The authorities had successful 2024 appointed a three-member committee led by the Chief Secretary to reappraisal the commission’s recommendations. However, the hold successful publishing the study had led to controversies, with Christian bodies including the Latin Catholic Church and the Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council (KCBC) demanding the authorities to marque it nationalist and instrumentality the recommendations astatine the earliest. The Latin Church adjacent said past twelvemonth that the government’s stance connected the study and different issues concerning the assemblage would power the Church’s governmental presumption successful the conscionable concluded section assemblage elections. 

Published - January 06, 2026 07:34 p.m. IST