18 October 2026
Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan laid the foundation stone for a new fishing harbour at Vizhinjam and inaugurated the renovation of the existing fishing harbour. The ceremony was held at Thennoorkonam on the Vizhinjam-Poovar road, with Fisheries Minister V.E. Abdul Gafoor presiding. The State is starting projects worth 500 crore rupees at Vizhinjam. Compensation and livelihood assistance of 35 crore rupees for 1,335 beneficiaries will be paid directly into bank accounts. The modern fishing harbour is being built at a cost of 260 crore rupees. Under the terms of the concession agreement for the Vizhinjam international port, the harbour is being built by Adani Vizhinjam Port Pvt. Ltd. as a government-funded work. Vizhinjam is described as one of Kerala's earliest fishing harbours.
Projects started:
500 കോടി രൂപ
Harbour cost:
260 കോടി രൂപ
Assistance:
35 കോടി രൂപ
Beneficiaries:
1,335
Why it matters for exams: Vizhinjam figures and the fishing harbour outlay are among the most asked Kerala infrastructure numbers.
Kerala PSCUPSC
18 October 2026
Health and Devaswom Minister K. Muraleedharan said 1800 doctor posts, including specialty doctors, will be created to expand government hospitals and make them operational. He said 500 nurse and pharmacist posts will also be filled, and that a letter has been given to the Chief Minister, who holds the Finance portfolio. The Minister said that once the doctors are in place, all district hospitals will be made operational for 24 hours. He was speaking after inaugurating the construction of the Chottanikkara, Thottoor and Koovappady primary health centres, taken up under the State Government's hundred-day action programme. He said 94 per cent of the Health Department's work under that programme has been completed, and that Pratheeksha centres have been started in all districts.
Doctor posts:
1800
Nurse and pharmacist posts:
500
Programme completion:
94 ശതമാനം
Why it matters for exams: Post creation figures and the hundred-day programme completion rate are both quotable in Kerala governance answers.
Kerala PSCUPSC
18 October 2026
Chief Electoral Officer Dr. Sajith Babu has directed District Collectors to conduct a statewide special enrolment drive for adding names to the electoral roll, deleting names and correcting errors. Form distribution and digital help desks will be set up at village offices from 15 to 31 October. Applicants must submit any one of twelve documents proving photograph, age and address; those submitting Aadhaar must give one more supporting document. Further verification will be completed by Booth Level Officers visiting homes directly. The drive is being taken up with reference to the electoral roll that came into force on 1 January 2025 and the roll in force just before the Assembly election. District Collector A. Nizamudheen announced the arrangements for the district.
Drive period:
ഒക്ടോബർ 15 മുതൽ 31 വരെ
Documents listed:
12
Chief Electoral Officer:
ഡോ. സജിത്ത് ബാബു
Why it matters for exams: Electoral roll revision procedure, the document rule and the role of Booth Level Officers are repeat polity questions.
Kerala PSCUPSC
In plain words
BLO Booth Level Officer — The local officer who verifies electoral roll entries by visiting households.
18 October 2026
Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Backward Classes Welfare Minister K.A. Thulasi said the Scheduled Caste Development Department is implementing the Dakshayani Swayam Thozhil Sahaya Padhathi. The scheme aims to secure the economic self-sufficiency of women of the Scheduled Caste community, encourage entrepreneurship and create sustainable employment through collectives. It provides 75 per cent subsidy for enterprise activities that can succeed locally. The Minister also said a special housing scheme will be implemented for homeless people of the Scheduled Caste community and for those living in uninhabitable houses, as part of the State Government's hundred-day action programme. He was inaugurating the district-level observance of the Social Solidarity Fortnight. Ramesh Pisharody MLA presided, V.K. Sreekandan MP was chief guest and Kerala Sahitya Akademi Chairman Kalpetta Narayanan delivered the keynote address.
Scheme:
ദാക്ഷായണി സ്വയം തൊഴിൽ സഹായ പദ്ധതി
Subsidy:
75 ശതമാനം
Why it matters for exams: A named scheme with a stated subsidy rate is the most likely scheme question from this week.
Kerala PSCUPSC
18 October 2026
The Agriculture Department is implementing the Kera project with the cooperation of the World Bank. Under the project, farmers will be allowed seventy five thousand rupees per hectare for planting climate-resilient rubber saplings, and a maximum of two hectares of assistance will be allowed to one farmer. A training and registration programme for farmers taking up rubber replanting was organised at the Hotel Moonlight auditorium at Nooranad, inaugurated by Palamel Grama Panchayat President Susamma Chacko. Panchayat member Soumya Pradeep chaired the session. Classes were taken by Ajas K. Bava, Junior Cooperative Inspector of the Kottayam Regional RPMU, on the Kera project, and by R. Praveen Kumar, Deputy RPC in-charge of the Adoor Rubber Board, on the Kera rubber replanting management scheme. Kera project authorities said about one hundred and ten farmers attended the training and completed registration for replanting.
Rate:
ഹെക്ടറിന് എഴുപത്തയ്യായിരം രൂപ
Maximum per farmer:
രണ്ടു ഹെക്ടർ
Partner:
ലോക ബാങ്ക്
Why it matters for exams: A World Bank assisted Kerala agriculture project with a stated per-hectare rate is a likely scheme question.
Kerala PSCUPSC
18 October 2026
The state-level inauguration of KSFE Pink Chitties is to be performed by Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan at 11 in the morning on 12 October. The programme is to be held in the Chief Minister's chamber in the Niyamasabha. At the function the KSFE guarantee commission for the 2025-26 financial year, of 110.04 crore rupees, is to be handed over to the Chief Minister. KSFE Managing Director Abhilash P.N. and Chairman K.R. Jyothilal are to take part, along with board members Meera K.S. and B.S. Preetha. Pink Chitties are chitties of the state-owned Kerala State Financial Enterprises aimed at women subscribers.
Guarantee commission:
110.04 കോടി രൂപ
Financial year:
2025-26
Managing Director:
അഭിലാഷ് പി.എൻ.
Why it matters for exams: KSFE is a standing Kerala public sector question and the guarantee commission figure is new this year.
Kerala PSCUPSC
In plain words
KSFE Kerala State Financial Enterprises — The State-owned company that runs chitties and lending in Kerala.
18 October 2026
The first-phase district-level inauguration of the JOSH scheme, formed for the advancement of a tuberculosis-free India, was performed by Perinthalmanna Sub Collector Sakshi Mohan. The scheme is implemented jointly by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and the Ministry of Defence, and uses NCC cadets and My Bharat volunteers to strengthen tuberculosis awareness and diagnosis support at ward and block level. The national-level launch was performed by Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. The district programme was held at Malabar Heritage, Manjeri, where an awareness class was organised on the spread of tuberculosis, treatment methods, what a patient should watch for, and the importance of screening. The Sub Collector presented mementos to Perinthalmanna and Nilambur municipalities and to A.R. Nagar and Vettom grama panchayats, which qualified for TB-free status. District Medical Officer Dr. V. Vinod and District TB Officer Dr. L. Sheenalal took part.
JOSH:
ജോയിന്റ് സ്ക്വാഡ് ഫോർ ഹെൽത്ത്
TB-free local bodies:
പെരിന്തൽമണ്ണ, നിലമ്പൂർ, എ.ആർ. നഗർ, വെട്ടം
Why it matters for exams: The JOSH full form and the TB Mukt Bharat link are exactly what a health current affairs question tests.
Kerala PSCUPSC
In plain words
JOSH Joint Squad for Health — A squad formed under the TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan to mobilise departments and volunteers against tuberculosis.
18 October 2026
Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Backward Classes Welfare Minister K.A. Thulasi said the department has taken up house construction for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe people, and that 10000 applications will be considered for house construction in the first phase. He was inaugurating online the functioning of the post-metric hostel for girls completed at Mayithara in Cherthala, Alappuzha district. The Minister said all 32 schemes framed by the department as part of the hundred-day action programme are complete and 1000 study rooms have been built. He said the food menu in post-metric hostels has been revised and that prompt steps are being taken to improve hostel functioning. P. Prasad MLA presided and said infrastructure development in post-metric hostels should be speeded up.
First-phase applications:
10000
Schemes completed:
32
Study rooms built:
1000
Why it matters for exams: The 10000 first-phase figure and the 32 completed schemes are both quotable welfare numbers.
Kerala PSCUPSC
18 October 2026
Thalakkulathur Grama Panchayat is appointing a Project Assistant in connection with the utilisation of the Sixteenth Finance Commission grant. The work is to geo-tag construction works and to prepare bills on the e-Gram Swaraj portal. The interview will be held at 11 in the morning on the 13th at the Thalakkulathur Grama Panchayat office. The qualification is a three-year Diploma in Commercial Practice or a Diploma in Computer Application and Business Management from the Controller of Technical Examinations or the Board of Technical Education, or a degree recognised by the universities in Kerala together with a recognised diploma or post graduate diploma in computer application of not less than one year. The age limit is between eighteen and forty as on 1 January 2026.
Grant:
പതിനാറാം ധനകാര്യ കമ്മീഷൻ
Portal:
ഇ-ഗ്രാമ സ്വരാജ്
Age limit:
പതിനെട്ടിനും നാൽപതിനും മധ്യേ
Why it matters for exams: It links the Sixteenth Finance Commission, geo-tagging and the e-Gram Swaraj portal, all current governance terms.
Kerala PSCUPSC
In plain words
e-Gram Swaraj e-Gram Swaraj — The national portal on which panchayats record their plans, works and payments.
Background
Kerala's northernmost districts have their own affiliating university, and its name changed before it was a year old.
The University by the name Malabar University had come into existence by the promulgation of an Ordinance by the Governor of Kerala, on 9th November 1995.
Kannur University was then established by the Act 22 of 1996 of Kerala Legislative Assembly.
The University was inaugurated on 2nd March 1996 by the then Chief Minister of Kerala, A.K Antony.
The objective of the Kannur University Act is to establish a teaching, residential and affiliating University, promoting the development of higher education in Kasargod and Kannur revenue Districts and the Mananthavady Taluk of Wayanad District.
It is a multi-campus university with campuses spread over various locations under its jurisdiction.
The Act envisages campuses at places including Kannur, Kasaragod, Nileswaram, Mangattuparamba, Mananthavady, Payyannur and Thalassery.
Establishing Act:
Act 22 of 1996
Earlier name:
Malabar University
Inaugurated:
2nd March 1996
Jurisdiction:
Kasargod and Kannur revenue Districts and the Mananthavady Taluk of Wayanad District
Why it matters for exams: The earlier name, the Act number and the one Wayanad taluk inside its jurisdiction are the three details examiners pick from this university.
Kerala PSCUPSC