The Main Objects of the Bill The Education Bill already introduced in the Kerala Legislature and referred to the Select Committee is intended mainly to be a safeguard against the disabilities enumerated above. The following are the main objects:- (1) To give the departmental rules and practices legal sanction so that the Department is in a position to enforce its orders and see that reasonable protection is afforded to teachers. (2) To regulate the choice, appointment, conditions of service, etc [...]
Not A Minority The contention of Christians in Kerala who are under the discipline of he ecclesiastical heads, that the schools established and maintained by them under the prescribed rules of the Department are to be reckoned as minority schools or denominational schools is absolutely untenable. There are minority schools in Kerala, but these are not many. They are owned by Anglo-Indians, Jews, Gujarathies, etc. The claim of Christians that they should be allowed to establish and maintain minor [...]
The attainments of today. After the liberation of India from foreign domination, the continuous agitation of teachers for better salary and conditions of service has considerably improved the situation. At present we have more than ten thousand schools (Lower Primary Schools, Upper Primary Schools and High Schools) in the Kerala State. The teaching personnel would be over 70,000. More than half of the schools in the State are owned by private agencies. In the Travcancore-Cochin area, the most ou [...]
The Kerala Education Bill: Background to Policy. Following is the full text of a Press release issued on the 19th August 1957. The aim and purpose of the Education Bill now on the anvil of the Kerala Legislative Assembly have been explained in detail by the Minister for Education himself and by his colleagues in the Council of Ministers, besides having been clarified in official hand-outs to the Press and utterances by impartial leaders of public opinion. There has, however, been a continuing ca [...]
Select Committee Records Evidence: Obstructionist Tactics by Crowd. The Select Committee on the Kerala Education Bill met in the Alwaye palace at 12.30 p.m. on the 1st August 1957 and recorded evidence from representative organisations and individuals. When the Committee started recording evidence, there was a regular flow of people, about 400 in number, all demanding immediate interview with the Committee for their evidence being taken. Many of them indulged in demonstrations shouting slogans. [...]
Two Communists killed in Clash in Edamalai Estate. Trivandrum, August 5. Two Communist workers died on the spot as a result of a clash between I.N.T.U.C. and Communist workers in Edamalai Estate at Vandiperiyar in High Ranges yesterday. The workers died due to stabbing injuries, according to official information here. A few I.N.T.U.C. workers are also reported to have sustained injuries. A ministerial spokesman said to-day that Government had been receiving complaints of Congress and I.N.T.U.C. [...]
Demonstrators Clash on issue of Education Bill – 10 Injured. Alleppey, August 16. Ten persons sustained minor injuries when two groups of pro and anti-Education Bill demonstrators clashed here this afternoon. The clash occurred as 400 black flag demonstrators were prevented by an equally strong rival group from, pressing near the State Education Minister, Mr.Joseph Mundassery on his arrival here from Pulinkunnu, a nearby backwater village. Three of the injured have been admitted in the local Gov [...]
Government have been carefully watching the trend of public opinion, both in support of and in opposition to the Education Bill now before the Legislative Assembly. Government are reassured by the large volume of support for the measure and are also taking note of the objections to certain clauses in the Bill genuinely left by individual sections ;or interests concerned. The Legislature, which is the sovereign body, empowered to give form and finality to the measure will doubtless consider all a [...]
NOT A NATIONALISATION MEASURE - EDUCATION MINISTER’S ELUCIDATION OF BILL The Kerala Education Minister, Shri Joseph Mundasserry, today (July 11th, 1957) re-affirmed that the Education Bill proposed to be introduced in the ensuing session of the State Legislative Assembly (opening on the 13th July) was not a nationalisation measure as was being wrongly interpreted in certain sections of the Press and on public platforms. The Bill was, simply and purely, a piece of protective legislation intended [...]
No Violation of Fundamental Rights Official Spokesman Exposes Sectional Propaganda. Referring to the criticism, in the editorial and news columns of a section of the Press, of Government’s policy in regard to private management schools, an official spokesman today (May 30, 1957) observed: “It is unfortunate that Government’s policy defining the basis on which private management schools which enjoy the full benefits of Government aid should function is being misconstrued and misinterpreted as a v [...]