Kerala’s ruling coalition had faced a major crisis as the Communist Party of India (CPI) challenged Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s unilateral decision to join the PM SHRI scheme. But now, by forming a subcommittee to review the government’s decision to sign an MoU with the Centre for implementing the scheme, the chief minister has brought temporary peace within the Front.

On October 23, K. Vasuki, Secretary of the General Education Department, signed the MoU on behalf of the Kerala government. The Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala has long opposed the National Education Policy (NEP), describing it as a “centralizing and exclusionary” framework that promotes “saffronization,” corporatization of education, and the erosion of state autonomy. Calling PM SHRI a “backdoor entry” for the

See Full Page