Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty on Friday inaugurated Kathotsavam 2023, a programme being organised in all pre-primary schools in the State.
Novel projects would be implemented for strengthening the pre-primary sector, the Minister said at a function at Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Pattom. The General Education department was already implementing pre-school education that was scientific and based on mother tongue. The developments in the pre-primary sector in the State were becoming a model for the country.
Nearly 650 pre-primary schools in the State had been transformed into model institutions. Another 500 would also be upgraded to model pre-primary institutions by the end of this academic year as part of the Varnakoodaram project, he said.