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Kerala volition attack the Supreme Court to unafraid its rightful stock of acquisition funds nether the Samagra Shiskha scheme, Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty has said.
At a property league present connected Thursday, Mr. Sivankutty said Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan’s reply to a question connected Samagra Shiksha funds by John Brittas, MP, successful the Rajya Sabha a mates of days agone had dimmed immoderate hopes of the State receiving the pending funds. Against this backdrop, the State authorities had decided to employment each antiauthoritarian means to unafraid the funds that were owed to it nether the Constitution and according to the Right to Education Act.
The authorities was besides mulling holding a protestation against the Union authorities successful New Delhi with the engagement of students and acquisition activists to get the withheld funds. The Opposition statement connected the PM SHRI (Prime Minister’s Schools for Rising India) strategy astatine the nationalist level was weakened by Congress-ruled States by giving their support to the scheme, Mr. Sivankutty said.
He alleged that the Union Minister’s reply successful the Rajya Sabha had brought to the fore the Centre’s discriminatory cognition towards Kerala and the treble standards of the Congress connected PM SHRI. The figures provided by the Union Minister during his reply made it evident that States ruled by the Congress implemented PM SHRI and received crores successful Samagra Shiksha funds.
Karnataka, for instance, received ₹868.3 crore against the sanctioned Central stock of ₹936.55 successful 2024-25 and ₹517.7 crore against the sanctioned magnitude of ₹1,103.33 crore till day successful 2025-26. Telangana received ₹988.79 crore successful 2024-25 and ₹269.05 successful 2025-26, Himachal Pradesh ₹526.2 crore and ₹177.68 crore, and Rajasthan nether the Congress regularisation successful 2023-24 got₹3,202.89 crore.
Even arsenic the Congress-ruled States entered into an statement with the Union authorities to person funds, Congress MPs from Kerala were trying to sabotage funds for Kerala. The Union authorities had withheld ₹1,160.52 crore that was owed to the State, Mr. Sivankutty told mediapersons.
Kerala had got zero funds nether the Samagra Shiksha strategy successful 2024-25 and lone ₹92.41 crore till present successful 2025-26.
Mr. Brittas should beryllium respected for intervening for securing the funds, the Minister said, adding that Opposition MPs had ne'er inquired astir the contented from him [Mr. Sivankutty] oregon intervened to property the State’s cause. The 2 Union Ministers from the State were besides of nary help.
On the discontent wrong the CPI connected PM SHRI, the Minister said a determination had been reached with it connected the issue.
