Union Minister George Kurian on Friday (October 31) said the Kerala government’s decision to issue a letter seeking to freeze further procedures under the PM SHRI scheme signed with the Centre will have only "paper value".

The state government has frozen the MoU signed by it with the Centre following a disagreement with its LDF ally, CPI, over the matter.

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Kurian compared the move to State Assemblies passing ordinances against laws enacted by Parliament, and said that the Union Education Ministry would take a final decision on the matter.

He said the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) was aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP). "Let the state government claim they have won. They don’t want the saffron m

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