The Social Justice Department has said Keralam has settled 95.06 per cent of the applications it received for the UDID card, the single identity document for persons with disabilities. Of the 5,21,250 applications received in the State, 4,95,482 have been disposed of, and 4,54,789 people have already been given cards. Only 25,768 applications are now left. Nodal officers have been posted in every district collectorate to coordinate the work, and a meeting of District Collectors was called to push it faster. Applicants who do not yet hold a disability certificate can be examined at 113 government hospitals, and the Kerala Social Security Mission will run special disability medical camps across the State. The department expects 24,701 such applicants to receive cards within the next two months. Another 1,067 people who already hold valid certificates need not be examined again and will get cards through District Medical Officers. Specialist doctors from the private sector are also being added to the medical boards to make up for the shortage of doctors.
Minister Bindu Krishna has announced that 52 children from the 14 districts of Keralam have been chosen for the Ujjwalabalyam Puraskaram 2025, an award instituted by the Women and Child Development Department. The award covers children who stood out in art, sport, literature, science, social work, environmental protection, information technology, agriculture, waste management, charity work, craft, sculpture and acts of exceptional courage. The aim is to recognise the talent of children and to build their confidence and creativity. The department also runs a district-level and State-level speech competition for upper primary and high school pupils, where district winners go on to the State round and the top three receive the Chacha Nehru Memorial Trophy, a certificate and a cash prize. At a separate meeting the department decided that child protection must not begin only after a child has been harmed. Keralam will therefore carry out a statewide family stability mapping to find children living in risky situations early. Schools, anganwadis, local bodies, District Child Protection Units, health workers and the police will together assess the conditions of families and children. The mapping will look for malnutrition, neglect, violence at home, child labour, begging, dropping out of study, drug-related problems and other forms of exploitation.
Children selected:52Districts covered:14
Why it matters for exams: Ujjwalabalyam Puraskaram and the Women and Child Development Department are named in Kerala PSC welfare questions.
The Hospital Management Committee has approved the Union Health Ministry's AMRIT pharmacy and health lab projects for Muvattupuzha General Hospital. The work will be carried out by Hindustan Latex Limited, a central public sector undertaking, and will add a modern laboratory, a pharmacy and further super-speciality services at the hospital. The free laboratory tests and the free medicines the government already supplies will continue without any change. On top of those free services, the aim is to make more modern and specialised tests and medicines available at low rates. Ultrasound scans, different kinds of CT scans and speciality blood tests will be offered cheaply, which will spare ordinary patients the cost of private laboratories. Medical products needed for super-speciality treatment, such as dialysis medicines and orthopaedic implants, will be available at up to 50 per cent below market price. The step followed a request letter from municipal chairperson Joyce Mary Antony and the intervention of Dean Kuriakose MP, after which an HLL team visited the hospital and assessed the project.
Price cut on super-speciality products:up to 50 per cent below market price
Why it matters for exams: AMRIT, the Union Health Ministry's low-cost medicine outlet scheme, and HLL as its implementing PSU are frequent health-scheme questions.
General Education Minister N Shamsudheen has released the logo of the 58th State Science Fair, which will be held at Mannarkkad in Palakkad district. The release took place at the auditorium of Darunnajath Higher Secondary School, Nellipuzha, and the Minister also led a review meeting of the committees and sub-committees running the fair. More than seven thousand talents will compete in the fair, which runs from November 18 to 21. The events are spread over several schools: the mathematics fair at Kalladi Higher Secondary School, Kumaramputhur, the social science fair at MET Higher Secondary School, Mannarkkad, the work experience fair at Darunnajath Higher Secondary School, Nellipuzha, and the science and IT fairs at MES Higher Secondary School. The skill festival exhibition and the career fest will be held at the Mini Mubas Stadium opposite the Nellipuzha KSRTC bus station. The whole fair will follow green protocol fully, with accommodation and a food court arranged for students and teachers. Temporary traffic changes will be made to ease movement, and an arts and cultural evening will be held on every day of the fair. Ottapalam MLA K Premkumar presided over the function.
Edition:58thParticipants:more than 7,000
Why it matters for exams: The State Science Fair and its edition number are routine Kerala PSC general education questions.
Applications have been invited for the Vanitha Ratna Puraskaram 2026, the award Keralam gives to women who have proved themselves in different fields. The award is given in six categories: social service, sport, a woman who has overcome adverse circumstances to succeed in life, empowerment of women and children, those who have made a mark in education, science and technology, and the field of art. A person nominated for the award must be living. The nominee must also have worked in the relevant field for at least five years. Applications must reach the authorities by November 30, and nominations received after the last date will not be considered for the award. Further details are available on the official website of the Women and Child Development Department. The award is one of the main ways the department recognises individual achievement by women in Keralam.
Categories:6Minimum years of work needed:5 yearsLast date:November 30
Why it matters for exams: The Vanitha Ratna Puraskaram and its awarding department are repeated Kerala PSC questions on State awards.
The Kerala Public Service Commission has cancelled the notification it issued for the post of Civil Excise Officer Driver Part II in the Excise Department in Malappuram district. The post was to be filled by transfer of category, which is one of the routes the Commission uses for departmental posts. The notification had been published in the gazette of October 15, 2025 with category number 387/2025. The Commission cancelled it because no application at all was received against that notification. The District Officer of the Kerala Public Service Commission has said that every further step connected with the notification stands cancelled as well. Candidates who were waiting for this selection will therefore have to look for a fresh notification if the post is advertised again. A cancellation of this kind is formally notified so that the vacancy and the category number are not carried forward by mistake.
Category number:387/2025Department:Excise Department
Why it matters for exams: The Kerala Public Service Commission's gazette notification and category number system is itself examined in Kerala PSC papers.
The 14th National Saras Mela will be held at Kooriyad in Vengara, Malappuram, from December 22 to 31, 2026. The fair is organised jointly by Kudumbashree and the Union Ministry of Rural Development, and it is meant to create a national market for the products and the enterprise of rural women. A Saras media committee meeting at the Vengara block panchayat office, chaired by media committee chairman P K Navas MLA, decided to run a wide publicity campaign for the fair. A reception committee office will start work at Vengara soon, and marathon races will be held in every panchayat with the help of youth organisations and clubs. Flash mobs will be held in Vengara panchayat and in the 12 municipalities of the district, along with a shootout contest and a women's football match. Banners, posters and other publicity material will be put up in an environment-friendly way, and a request will be sent to the government for special KSRTC services on the days of the fair. The main attractions will be the display and sale of products, handicrafts, garments and food items of rural women entrepreneurs from different States of India. Arts and cultural programmes, seminars, a flower show, an amusement park and a pet show will also be part of the fair.
Edition:14thDates:December 22 to 31, 2026Venue:Kooriyad, Vengara, Malappuram
Why it matters for exams: Saras Mela links Kudumbashree with the Union Ministry of Rural Development, a pairing often asked about in rural livelihood questions.
Applications have been invited for the sixth batch of the Adventure Activity Assistant course, an adventure tourism training programme in Keralam. The course is conducted jointly by the Kerala Adventure Tourism Promotion Society, which works under the Tourism Department, and the Kerala Institute of Tourism and Travel Studies, known as KITTS. The training runs for seven days. Anyone who has passed the eighth standard, who had completed 18 years of age on October 1, 2026 and is not above 45, and who is in good physical condition may apply. The batch begins on November 17. Applications prepared on plain paper must reach the Director, Kerala Institute of Tourism and Travel Studies, Residency, Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram 695014 by November 13. The course is part of the State's effort to build a trained workforce for adventure tourism activities.
Batch:6thDuration:7 daysAge limit:18 to 45
Why it matters for exams: KITTS and the Kerala Adventure Tourism Promotion Society are Tourism Department institutions that Kerala PSC asks about by name.
Applications have been invited to work as Para Legal Volunteers in the Kollam District Legal Services Authority and in the Taluk Legal Services Committees of Kollam district on a daily wage of Rs 750. Applicants must have passed the tenth standard, and those with higher education will be given preference. The notice says applicants must not be active political workers and must not be involved in criminal cases. Serving and retired teachers, retired government employees, MSW students and MSW teachers, anganwadi workers, doctors, students and law students who have not enrolled as advocates may apply. Non-political non-governmental organisations, non-political clubs, members of self help groups and members of neighbourhood groups are also eligible. The application form is available at the Legal Services Authority office, and the last date is November 30 at five in the evening. Para Legal Volunteers are the link between the legal services authorities and people who cannot easily reach a lawyer.
Daily wage:Rs 750Minimum qualification:Tenth standard passLast date:November 30, 5 pm
Why it matters for exams: Para Legal Volunteers and the District Legal Services Authority come from the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987, a frequent polity topic.
Minister K A Thulasi has issued a firm instruction that applications for the Thanathu Bhavana Padhathi and for the post of SC Promoter must be accepted even when the required certificates are not attached. The Minister handles the Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Backward Classes Welfare portfolio, and the two schemes are run through the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Development Departments. Many applicants were losing their chance because certificates from Revenue, local self-government institutions and other authorities were delayed. The last date for applications under the Thanathu Bhavana Padhathi is November 16, and officers must accept applications filed by that date even if the certificates are still missing. Applicants must then be given time to produce the certificates within the period in which applications are scrutinised. For the SC Promoter post the last date is November 12, and such candidates may produce the missing certificates at the time of the interview. No application may be rejected or refused merely because the certificates were not enclosed. The Minister has also directed that all offices follow one uniform procedure in accepting these applications.
Last date, housing scheme:November 16Last date, SC Promoter:November 12
Why it matters for exams: The Thanathu Bhavana Padhathi and the SC Promoter post are Scheduled Caste Development Department items that recur in Kerala PSC papers.
Culture Minister P C Vishnunath has said the Kerala Bhasha Institute must bring out more knowledge books in Malayalam, and that the institute carries a large responsibility in growing the field of knowledge. He was inaugurating the closing session of the Vaijnanika Pusthakotsavam, a knowledge book festival the institute held at Ayyankali Hall as part of the Kerala Piravi celebrations. The Minister said steps will be taken to enforce the existing order that when libraries buy books, 30 per cent must be knowledge books of the Bhasha Institute and other government institutions. He added that the government will examine including the institute's books in the reading competitions of the Library Council. At the function the Minister released the second volume of the complete works of Prof S Guptan Nair, compiled by Dr M G Sasibhushan, and the first and second volumes of Sree Narayana Guru's Darsanamala with the commentary of Swami Samprasad. The Minister also praised the contribution the institute has made to the growth of the language. Bhasha Institute Assistant Director N Jayakrishnan presided over the function.
Share of government knowledge books in library purchases:30 per cent
Why it matters for exams: The Kerala Bhasha Institute and the Kerala State Library Council are standard Kerala PSC culture and institutions questions.
Eggs produced at the Athavanad District Poultry Farm will now reach the market under the brand name 'Poshan'. The farm is a joint venture of the Malappuram District Panchayat and the Animal Husbandry Department. An egg marketing centre has been opened at the District Animal Husbandry Office in the Civil Station, and it was inaugurated by District Panchayat President P A Jabbar Haji, who also released the brand. The first packet of eggs was received by District Medical Officer (Ayush) Dr Bindu. Assistant Director of the Athavanad District Poultry Farm Dr A Savitha explained the project at the function. The aim is to give the public good quality, nutrient-rich brown eggs from Gramasree hens, a variety suited to Kerala's climate, at a fair price. Eggs will be available at this marketing centre from 11 in the morning every Thursday. An awareness class was also held, led by veterinary surgeons Dr Waseem and Dr Harsha.
Brand:PoshanSale day:Every Thursday from 11 am
Why it matters for exams: Gramasree, the Keralam-bred backyard poultry variety, and the district poultry farms of the Animal Husbandry Department are named in agriculture questions.