Close on the heels of a controversy over schoolchildren having to wait for long by the roadside to receive the bus carrying Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his Cabinet colleagues earlier this week in Kannur, the Kerala High Court on Friday issued an interim order against making children attend the ongoing Navakerala Sadas.
The court had earlier barred school buses from being deployed for the event soon after the government issued a circular seeking their deployment.
Justice Devan Ramachandran warned Principals and headmasters against making children attend programmes that were not part of the academic curriculum. The Kerala Education Act and rules did not permit children being told to attend any such non-academic activity, he said, referring to reports of children being forced to attend the event.
