General Education Minister V. Sivankutty has reaffirmed the Kerala government’s resolve to teach school students portions including the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and the Gujarat riots that were deleted by the Centre as part of implementing the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
Kerala is the only State to reinstate such portions deleted by National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in textbooks distributed as part of the curriculum for Classes XI and XII, he added, while responding to questions in the Kerala Legislative Assembly on Monday.
“Kerala has not fully accepted the NEP 2020. While Tamil Nadu has fully rejected the document, Karnataka has decided to only partially implement the proposed reforms. Having a prolific tradition of education, our State too can implement the reforms only in accordance with such history,” he said.
