The Cabinet on Wednesday decided to issue orders revising the list of new higher secondary schools and batches sanctioned for the current academic year on the basis of a High Court order of August 18.
Accordingly, 283 batches in 254 schools that were not recommended by a six-member committee headed by the Director of Higher Secondary Education will be dropped from the list. As many as 417 batches in 372 schools recommended by the committee will remain.
Tentative sanction will be issued for starting 219 batches in 198 schools during the next academic year.
These were schools and batches that had been recommended by the committee but were not included on the list for the current academic year.
The Cabinet approved a draft Bill to elevate the National Institute of Speech and Hearing (NISH) into a national university.
Briefing the media on the Cabinet decision, Minister K.C. Joseph said the university would undertake studies on disability and rehabilitation.
The time for completion of Thalassery-Valavupara, Pilathara-Pappinisseri, and Kasaragod-Kanhangad road development projects under the Kerala State Road Development Project would be extended.
Mr. Joseph said the term of Commissioner for Entrance Examinations B.S. Maoji would be extended by one year. Nearly 7.5 acres of Government Homoeo College at Kurichi in Kottayam district would be given for use of the Central Research Institute for Homoeopathy.
Titles would be granted to Sanatana Dharma Vidyalaya in Alappuzha for 71.255 acres of government land on lease.
