Thiruvananthapuram (PTI): Kerala government on Wednesday sent a letter to the Union Education Ministry seeking to stop further proceedings in the implementation of the PM SHRI scheme in the state.

State General Education Secretary K Vasuki sent the letter requesting the union government to temporarily stop the proceedings, a source said.

The letter was sent after receiving the legal opinion of the Advocate General, the source added.

The General Education Department's move came weeks after Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had announced the LDF government's decision to put on hold the implementation of the PM SHRI in view of strong resistance from the coalition partner CPI.

He had said that a seven-member Cabinet sub-committee had been constituted to study the implementation of the centr

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