The State government has condemned a decision of the Lakshadweep administration to convert all schools under its Department of Education from Malayalam to Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) English medium.
Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty wrote a letter to Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan seeking his intervention in “safeguarding the educational diversity and rights of the children in Lakshadweep.”
The Lakshadweep administration’s move, Mr. Sivankuty wrote, would jeopardise the diverse educational choices that should be available to the students. The directive that the children should exclusively study the CBSE syllabus was “a direct infringement on their fundamental right to education.”
