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Signing up for PM SHRI (PM Schools for Rising India) does not mean National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) syllabus volition beryllium taught successful schools successful the State, Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty has said.
Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State president K. Surendran’s remarks that contented related to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) co-founder K.B. Hedgewar and Hindutva ideologue V.D. Savarkar volition beryllium included successful the Kerala program were politically motivated and a propaganda, a connection quoting Mr. Sivankutty said connected Saturday.
Mr. Sivankutty alleged that Mr. Surendran did not person an thought astir the State’s acquisition policy. Kerala signed the statement for implementing PM SHRI to utilise Central funds for improving carnal infrastructure of schools successful State schools and rise their world quality. It was not to surrender the State’s syllabus to the Union government. The State had its ain almighty program and outlook connected education, helium said.
The Minister contended that moves by the Union authorities to rewrite past and communalise acquisition would not summation crushed successful the State. “The humanities information that Mahatma Gandhi was killed by Nathuram Godse cannot beryllium erased from textbooks successful the State by anyone,” helium said.
The State government, helium said, had nary volition to thatch students astir Hedgewar and Savarkar arsenic desired by Mr. Surendran. Such remarks were an effort by the BJP to make disorder successful the acquisition sector. “Government and aided schools successful the State volition proceed to impart acquisition that upholds Constitutional values and secularism based connected the program here,” the Minister said.
