Kerala condemns Lakshadweep's move to switch schools from Malayalam to English medium
15 December 2023 | On Manorama
Thiruvananthapuram: The government of Kerala on Thursday strongly condemned the recent direction of the Lakshadweep administration to convert all schools under their Department of Education from Malayalam to CBSE English medium. Expressing “great concern” over the directive, V Sivankutty, General Education Minister of Kerala, wrote to the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. In his letter to the central minister, Sivankutty sought his intervention to review and reconsider the decision. According to the Kerala minister, the recent move by the island administration would jeopardize the diverse educational choices available to students. The official instruction that the children in Lakshadweep should exclusively study the CBSE syllabus is a "direct infringement on their fundamental right to education," he said.