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Minister for General Education N. Samsudheen has reiterated that the United Democratic Front (UDF) authorities volition survey a study submitted by the General Education Principal Secretary connected the implementation of PM SHRI strategy and instrumentality a decision.
The Minister told The Hindu that helium had gone done the report, which gave factual details connected the PM SHRI scheme, the interaction of the signing of the MoU, if the strategy could beryllium continued, if 1 of the parties could retreat from it unilaterally, and if truthful however to spell astir it. He had reported these to the UDF leadership.
The study would beryllium discussed with acquisition experts excessively and the UDF would denote a determination connected the aboriginal of the statement signed betwixt the Kerala authorities and the Union government.
Mr. Samsudheen said determination was nary request for an urgent determination connected the issue. The UDF needed clip to sermon it. However, it did not mean that decision-making would beryllium extended indefinitely. “The authorities came to powerfulness little than a period ago. We volition denote a determination soon,”he said.
The LDF government, aft holding disconnected connected signing the statement with the Union authorities connected the grounds of ideological absorption to the National Education Policy (NEP), had inked the statement successful October past year, lone to spot conjugation spouse Communist Party of India (CPI) allege that it had been kept successful the acheronian astir the decision.
Soon aft the woody was signed, the Union authorities released Samagra Shiksha funds to the tune of ₹92.41 crore owed to the State for the 2025-26 year.
However, faced with a schism successful the ruling coalition, the authorities decided to enactment the statement connected clasp and announced that a Cabinet sub-committee would survey the scheme.
