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Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty met Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan successful New Delhi connected Monday successful transportation with authorisation of pending Central funds for Samagra Shiksha Kerala (SSK).
The important gathering comes aft the State authorities decided to enactment connected clasp the Centrally sponsored PM SHRI (Prime Minister’s Schools for Rising India) strategy aft signing up for it successful the aftermath of absorption from conjugation partners, peculiarly the Communist Party of India, successful the Left Democratic Front.
Mr. Sivankutty said astatine a property league successful the nationalist superior that the talks focussed connected merchandise of Union authorities funds owed to the SSK astatine the earliest. The Union Minister was pressed to authorisation the Central stock of ₹1,066.36 crore for the SSK for the 2023-24, 2024-25, and 2025-26 fiscal twelvemonth astatine 1 go.
The talks were fruitful, and the Union Minister took a favourable basal successful the matter, the Minister’s bureau said successful a statement.
The State besides appealed for the merchandise of ₹6.2 crore for PM JANMAN (Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan) hostels and ₹3.57 crore for DA-JGUA (Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan) hostels.
Mr. Sivankutty invited Mr. Pradhan to beryllium the main impermanent astatine the Kerala Education Conclave successful Thiruvananthapuram successful January. The programme would assistance to fortify practice successful the acquisition assemblage astatine the nationalist level.
The Minister besides informed Mr. Pradhan of the State government’s basal connected seeking pending Central funds for the acquisition assemblage successful Kerala and protecting the State’s acquisition interests.
The State has been asked to taxable caller connection for receiving the adjacent instalment of funds, it is learnt.
