Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar (left) and General Education Minister V Sivankutty.
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Thiruvananthapuram: As the friction with Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar intensifies, Kerala government has decided to include portions on the duties of Governors in school text books.
General education minister V Sivankutty, who walked out from a function at the Raj Bhavan on Thursday in protest against the display of picture of Bharatmatha, made the announcement on Friday.
"The country is now witnessing an unpleasant trend of governors being misused by the centre to cause troubles for democratically elected governments. The duties of the Governor are clearly laid down in the Constitution. There were Supreme Court orders in this regard. Schools are the place where students learn the value of democracy. Hence the duties of Governor will be also included in school syllabus," Sivankutty said at a press conference.
The topic will be included in the tenth standard and higher-secondary social science text books as part of the ongoing revision of the text books.
In 2023, the left-front government in Kerala had introduced supplementary textbooks for higher secondary students by including portions like Mahatma Gandhi's assassination and Mughal kingdom that were removed from NCERT textbooks.