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Kerala’s Left government is facing a growing storm of criticism from within its own ranks after signing an MoU to implement the Pradhan Mantri School for Rising India (PM SHRI) scheme, raising concerns that the state is quietly embracing the National Education Policy (NEP) it had long opposed.

Kerala has opposed NEP for years, calling it a clandestine attempt to saffronise education. Education Minister, V Sivankutty, who had been firmly against NEP, has steadily shifted his stand. Speaking to the media on October 24, he defended the move, saying, “Yes, it is true that we will not agree with NEP. But we cannot take the same stand till the world ends … Holding on to NEP, how can we deny crores of money that the Union government has

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