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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan volition inaugurate the State-level organisation of textbooks and escaped schoolhouse azygous for the 2026-27 world twelvemonth astatine St. Mary’s Higher Secondary School, Pattom, connected February 13.
Addressing a property league present connected Tuesday, Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty said an indent for 3.5 crore measurement I textbooks and 1.9 crore measurement II textbooks for Classes I to X had been given.
The Kerala Books and Publications Society (KBPS) had completed printing of 79 lakh textbooks, of which 55 lakh had been transported to textbook hubs.
The textbook organisation would beryllium completed by the extremity of May, the Minister said underscoring that organisation of textbooks had begun 3 months earlier the commencement of the adjacent world twelvemonth successful June.
He said uniforms had to beryllium distributed to implicit 8 lakh students arsenic per details disposable from the website of Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE).
Plus One texts
Mr. Sivankutty said caller textbooks would beryllium disposable for Class XI students from adjacent twelvemonth arsenic portion of the program revision process. The higher secondary textbook revision was being done aft a spread of 15 years. A gathering of the State program steering committee had fixed support to 41 textbook titles prepared by the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT). These included each languages, Computer Science, Journalism, Home Science, Gandhian Studies, and Electronics.
The Minister said a determination connected however to usage the 44 National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) textbooks titles successful higher secondary would beryllium taken aft these were published.
The SCERT had earlier published further textbooks successful 4 subjects successful the aftermath of NCERT effecting large cuts to textbooks.
The caller Class XI textbooks were acceptable up of the SSLC examinations this year, the Minister said, adding that the caller textbooks would beryllium released soon.
In all, 20 lakh textbooks needed to beryllium printed and distributed, the Minister said.
