Background
Lakshadweep's schooling is the base on which its literacy standing rests, and the Union Territory's Education Department page sets out the numbers.
There are 32 government schools across the 10 inhabited islands: 14 Junior Basic, 9 Senior Basic and 9 Senior Secondary.
11,761 students were enrolled from pre-school to Class 12 in 2024-25, and 8,953 students from pre-school to Class 8 receive mid-day meals under PM POSHAN.
The four colleges are the Arts and Science College at Androth, the Arts and Science College at Kadmat, the College of Education at Kadmat and the Polytechnic College at Minicoy.
The District Institute for Education and Training at Kavaratti runs teacher training including the D.El.Ed. programme, and there are Model Schools at Androth and Minicoy.
An Atal Tinkering Lab functions at PMSHRI GSSS Kavaratti, and 380 teachers have been trained.
Selected schools are being developed under Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan and PM SHRI; all classrooms are smart classrooms and all schools have internet connectivity.
Government schools:
32 across 10 inhabited islands
Students in 2024-25:
11,761
PM POSHAN beneficiaries:
8,953
Colleges:
4
Polytechnic College:
Minicoy
Why it matters for exams: The number of inhabited islands, where the only polytechnic sits, and where the DIET is, are all small facts an examiner can test precisely.
Kerala PSCUPSC
In plain words
PM POSHAN Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman — The central mid-day meal scheme for school children, renamed PM POSHAN.
PM SHRI PM Schools for Rising India — A central scheme that develops selected schools as model schools under the National Education Policy.
16 October 2026
The Information and Public Relations Department published the notice on 16 October 2026 under reference PNX 4360/2026.
Applications are invited from eligible candidates for the State-level and local-level tourist guide entrance examinations.
The last date to apply is 9 November, 5.30 pm.
Details are available at kittsedu.org or on 0471 2329468 and +91 8129816664.
Examination:
State-level and local-level tourist guide entrance examination
Last date:
9 November, 5.30 pm
Release reference:
PNX 4360/2026
Why it matters for exams: Kerala's tourism training institute and the two tiers of licensed guides - State-level and local-level - are askable points in a tourism-heavy State economy.
Kerala PSC
In plain words
KITTS Kerala Institute of Tourism and Travel Studies — The State tourism training institute whose website, kittsedu.org, carries the guide examination details.
16 October 2026
The Information and Public Relations Department published the notice on 16 October 2026.
The Institute of Human Resources Development will hold regular and supplementary semester examinations in December.
The examinations cover the Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications and the Post Graduate Diploma in Cyber Forensics and Security, both first and second semesters, the Diploma in Data Entry Techniques and Office Automation, first and second semesters, the Diploma in Computer Applications, and the Certificate Course in Library and Information Science.
The 2018 scheme is covered for the Certificate Course in Library and Information Science supplementary, along with the 2020 and 2024 schemes.
Students register at the centre where they study or studied; registration without fine closes on 7 November, and with a fine of ₹100 on 16 November.
The timetable will be published in the last week of November. Details are at www.ihrd.ac.in or on 0471 2322985 and 2322501.
Examination month:
December
Registration without fine:
till 7 November
Registration with fine:
₹100, till 16 November
Timetable:
last week of November
Why it matters for exams: IHRD's full name and the courses it runs come up in Kerala PSC questions on State educational institutions.
Kerala PSC
In plain words
IHRD Institute of Human Resources Development — A Kerala government institution running applied science, computer and technical courses through its own centres.
16 October 2026
The District Project Office of Samagra Shiksha Kerala in Alappuzha invited applications for vacant CRC Coordinator posts in the Block Resource Centres; the Information and Public Relations Department published the notice on 16 October 2026.
Applicants need a degree, a teaching qualification such as B.Ed., D.El.Ed. or TTC or its equivalent, and K-TET.
Teaching experience in government schools and experience in educational research are preferred but not mandatory.
The age limit is 45 years and the appointment is on a daily wage basis.
The last date to apply is 23 October, until 5 pm; details are at ssaalappuzha.blogspot.com or on 0477 2239655.
Post:
CRC Coordinator
District:
Alappuzha
Age limit:
45 years
Last date:
23 October, 5 pm
Why it matters for exams: The Samagra Shiksha structure of District Project Office, Block Resource Centre and Cluster Resource Centre, and the K-TET requirement, are frequently tested.
Kerala PSC
In plain words
CRC Cluster Resource Centre — The lowest academic support unit under Samagra Shiksha, below the Block Resource Centre.
K-TET Kerala Teacher Eligibility Test — The eligibility test a candidate must clear to be appointed as a school teacher in Kerala.
16 October 2026
The district-level launch was held at the Kozhikode District Institute of Education and Training, and the Information and Public Relations Department reported it on 16 October 2026.
The General Education Department scheme works through a 'Teens Club' for pupils of Classes 8, 9 and 10, aimed at their physical, mental, emotional and social growth.
Each division has a nine-member class council and each school a Teens School Council; either the president or the secretary must be a girl, and office-bearers are chosen with gender equality and disability inclusion in mind.
Club activities get 30 minutes a week, led by a trained nodal teacher who serves a three-year term, with a school-level committee chaired by the headmaster.
Last year the scheme ran only in government high schools; this year it has been extended to aided schools. The district has 83 government, 100 aided and 33 unaided high schools.
Sixty schools in the Vadakara educational district sent nodal teachers for training, and training for the Kozhikode and Thamarassery educational districts is set for 23 October.
DIET Principal Dr. U.K. Abdunnasar inaugurated the programme and Vadakara District Educational Officer Geetha Ramdas presided.
Classes covered:
Classes 8, 9 and 10
Weekly club time:
30 minutes
Government high schools in Kozhikode:
83
Aided high schools in Kozhikode:
100
Nodal teacher term:
three years
Why it matters for exams: Kerala PSC asks the names of General Education Department schemes, what DIET does, and the structure of school-level councils.
Kerala PSC
In plain words
DIET District Institute of Education and Training — The district body that trains school teachers and supports elementary education.
16 October 2026
The Information and Public Relations Department announced the 2026-27 Margadeepam scholarship on 16 October 2026.
The scholarship is a one-time grant of ₹1,500 a year.
It is open to minority students of Classes 1 to 8 in government and government-aided schools, from the Muslim, Christian (all denominations), Sikh, Buddhist, Jain and Parsi communities.
Applicants must be permanent residents of Kerala studying in the State, and family annual income must not exceed ₹2,50,000.
The applicant must hold a bank account in their own name in a scheduled or commercial bank.
Forms are downloaded from www.margadeepam.kerala.gov.in and submitted through the head of the institution; the last date is 31 October, 11 pm.
Amount:
₹1,500 a year, one-time grant
Classes covered:
Classes 1 to 8
Income ceiling:
₹2,50,000 a year
Last date:
31 October, 11 pm
Why it matters for exams: Kerala PSC asks the name, amount, income ceiling and administering department of State scholarship schemes, and Margadeepam is the minority-education one.
Kerala PSC
In plain words
Margadeepam Margadeepam scholarship — A Kerala scholarship for minority community pupils in the primary and upper primary classes.
16 October 2026
The Union Public Service Commission declared the results of the Combined Geo-Scientist Examination, 2026. The examination was held in three stages: Stage-I (Preliminary) on 8 February 2026, Stage-II (Main) on 20 and 21 June 2026, and the Personality Test in September 2026. For Geologist, Group 'A', there were 21 vacancies and 20 candidates were recommended, including 7 PwBD-1 and 1 PwBD-3 candidates; one PwBD-3 vacancy was carried forward as no PwBD-3 candidate was available. For Scientist 'B' (Hydrogeology), Group 'A' and Assistant Hydrogeologist, Group 'B' together there were 23 vacancies and 22 recommendations. For Geophysicist, Group 'A', Scientist 'B' (Geophysics), Group 'A' and Assistant Geophysicist, Group 'B' there were 5 vacancies and 4 recommendations. Chemist, Group 'A' had 16 vacancies and 16 recommendations, Scientist 'B' (Chemical), Group 'A' had 2 and 2, and Assistant Chemist, Group 'B' had 2 and 2. Reserve lists of two candidates each were drawn up for the Hydrogeology and Geophysics streams.
Preliminary stage:
8 February 2026
Main stage:
20 and 21 June 2026
Personality Test:
September 2026
Geologist vacancies:
21, with 20 recommended
Chemist, Group 'A':
16 vacancies, 16 recommended
Why it matters for exams: The Combined Geo-Scientist Examination is one of the UPSC's technical recruitments and its three-stage structure is itself examinable.
Kerala PSCUPSCSSC
In plain words
UPSC Union Public Service Commission — The constitutional body that conducts recruitment examinations for the Union's civil and technical services.
PwBD Persons with Benchmark Disabilities — A reservation category in government recruitment for candidates with specified disabilities.
16 October 2026
The Kerala Public Service Commission's Extraordinary Gazette dated 30/09/2026 lists ten notifications covering Cat.No.151/2026 to Cat.No.161/2026, with Cat.No.157 and 158 sharing one notification.
Cat.No.151/2026 is for Draftsman Grade-II in the Kerala Ports service, Hydrographic Survey Wing, and Cat.No.156/2026 is for Draftsman Grade-II / Town Planning Surveyor Grade-II in the LSG Department, Group IV Planning Wing.
Cat.No.153/2026 and Cat.No.154/2026 are both for Forest Boat Driver in the Forest and Wildlife Department, the first as Part-I and the second as Part II-By Transfer.
Cat.No.159/2026 is for Police Constable Driver and Woman Police Constable Driver in Kerala Police.
Cat.No.155/2026 is for Higher Secondary School Teacher-Statistics and Cat.No.157 and 158/2026 for Higher Secondary School Teacher (Jr.) Arabic, both in Kerala Higher Secondary Education.
Cat.No.152/2026, Cat.No.160/2026 and Cat.No.161/2026 are all for Peon/Watchman from among the part-time employees in KSFE Ltd. The last date for the whole range is 04-11-2026.
Notifications in the gazette:
10
Category range:
Cat.No.151/2026 to 161/2026
Last date:
04-11-2026
Posts in KSFE Ltd.:
Peon/Watchman
Why it matters for exams: Candidates must read a gazette correctly: which department a post belongs to, and that one category number can be split into Part-I and By Transfer streams.
Kerala PSC
In plain words
KSFE Kerala State Financial Enterprises Limited — A State-owned non-banking financial company in Kerala, best known for its chitty business.
LSG Department Local Self Government Department — The Kerala department that administers panchayats and municipalities and their planning wings.
16 October 2026
The Directorate of Higher Secondary Education cancelled the Higher Secondary Improvement Examinations in Idukki district on Friday, 16 October 2026, although they were being held elsewhere in the State that day.
Officials said the examinations will be held on another day in Idukki.
The CPM district committee had called a 12-hour hartal from 6 am over Ecologically Sensitive Area issues and policies affecting farmers.
Its demands included greater clarity in the cadastral map published in connection with ESA, dropping the move to declare the Cardamom Hill Reserve area as forest land, withdrawing orders converting plantations and farmland into wildlife sanctuaries, and scrapping plans to create elephant corridors.
Educational institutions, commercial establishments and private buses stayed shut, while essential services, milk supply, newspaper distribution, vehicles for weddings and cremations, tourists visiting Idukki from other districts and sports meets were exempted.
Police said limited KSRTC services ran, with personnel deployed at major centres across the district.
Hartal duration:
12 hours from 6 am
Examination affected:
Higher Secondary Improvement Examination
District:
Idukki
Why it matters for exams: The item links an examination authority's decision to the ESA question, the Cardamom Hill Reserve and elephant corridors, all recurring Kerala geography and environment topics.
Kerala PSC
In plain words
ESA Ecologically Sensitive Area — An area notified for restrictions on land use to protect a fragile ecosystem.
Cadastral map Cadastral map — A survey map showing the boundaries and ownership of individual land parcels.
Background
These figures sit behind the education and health notices the Union Territory Administration published in October 2026, including an interview notice from Government College, Daman.
The Administration's own profile of the Union Territory gives Daman a literacy rate of 88.06 per cent, Diu 83.46 per cent and Dadra and Nagar Haveli 76.2 per cent, with female literacy in Dadra and Nagar Haveli at 64.3 per cent.
The sex ratio is 1,031 in Diu, 774 in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and 534 in Daman.
The child sex ratio is 926 in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, 897 in Daman and 929 in Diu.
Most of these population and literacy figures are drawn from the 2011 Census.
The profile lists Gujarati, Marathi, Portuguese and Hindi for all three districts, with Varli and Kokni additionally for Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Literacy, Daman:
88.06%
Literacy, Diu:
83.46%
Literacy, Dadra and Nagar Haveli:
76.2%
Sex ratio, Diu:
1,031
Why it matters for exams: A sex ratio above 1,000 in one district and far below it in the next, within one small Union Territory, is exactly the contrast an examiner uses.
UPSCSSC
In plain words
Sex ratio Sex ratio — The number of females per thousand males in a population.
Child sex ratio Child sex ratio — The number of girls per thousand boys in the age group 0 to 6 years.
16 October 2026
The U.T. Administration of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu has posted a corrigendum dated 12/10/2026 to the specialist advertisement of Namo Hospital, Daman.
The original advertisement is numbered NAMO/DMN/Specialist in the Administration's listing.
The same listing carries an interview notice dated 01/10/2026 from Government College, Daman, against advertisement No. GC/DMN/PG/Application STC/2026-27/693 of 31/08/2026.
A Sports Department, Daman notice dated 15/10/2026 is the most recent entry on the listing.
Corrigendum date:
12/10/2026
Government College interview notice:
01/10/2026
Most recent listed notice:
Sports Department, Daman, 15/10/2026
Why it matters for exams: The institutions a small Union Territory runs directly, such as a government hospital and a government college, are asked about in administration questions.
UPSCSSC
In plain words
Corrigendum Corrigendum — A formal correction issued to an earlier official notice or advertisement.
16 October 2026
The Kerala Public Service Commission's notifications page lists its most recent Extraordinary Gazette as the one dated 30/09/2026.
That gazette carries notifications from Category No. 151/2026 to Category No. 161/2026.
The last date for applying against this gazette is 04-11-2026.
The previous Extraordinary Gazette, dated 31/08/2026, carried Category No. 130/2026 to Category No. 150/2026, with 07-10-2026 as the last date.
The Commission issues its notifications through such gazettes, each batch identified by a continuous run of category numbers.
Gazette date:
30/09/2026
Category numbers:
CAT.NO.151/2026 TO CAT.NO.161/2026
Last date:
04-11-2026
Why it matters for exams: Candidates are examined on how the Commission notifies posts and on reading category numbers and last dates correctly.
Kerala PSC
In plain words
KPSC Kerala Public Service Commission — The constitutional body that recruits for State services in Kerala.
Extraordinary Gazette Extraordinary Gazette notification — A gazette issue brought out outside the regular schedule, used by the Commission to publish batches of notifications.
16 October 2026
A working paper of the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that 29.4 per cent of abstracts of United States science, technology, engineering and mathematics doctoral dissertations filed from January to May 2026 contained artificial-intelligence-generated text.
Such text first appeared in 2023 at 1.7 per cent of abstracts and rose to 18.8 per cent in 2025.
Mathematical and computer sciences had the highest share at 36 per cent.
About 41 per cent of dissertations by graduates educated in non-English-speaking countries had AI-generated abstracts, against 23 per cent from English-speaking countries.
Among graduates who did their undergraduate studies in the United States, those with AI-generated abstracts were 17 per cent less likely to be employed in academia and 16 per cent more likely to be employed in industry.
The team analysed abstracts from more than 226,000 doctoral graduates between January 2019 and May 2026 using the detection service Pangram, and the paper has not been peer reviewed.
Share with AI-generated text, Jan to May 2026:
29.4 per cent
Share in 2023:
1.7 per cent
Highest field:
mathematical and computer sciences, 36 per cent
Dissertations analysed:
more than 226,000
Why it matters for exams: Academic integrity and the spread of generative artificial intelligence are live education-policy themes, and the figures here are the kind an examiner quotes.
Kerala PSCUPSC
In plain words
NBER National Bureau of Economic Research — A United States research organisation whose working papers circulate findings before peer review.
STEM Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics — The group of academic disciplines often treated together in education and workforce policy.
16 October 2026
The Digital India BHASHINI Division, under the Digital India Corporation, has developed text-to-speech models for Sourashtra with the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
Sourashtra is a minority Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly by the Sourashtra community in Tamil Nadu, and the 2011 Census counted about 2.48 lakh speakers.
The models use the VITS architecture and offer a male and a female voice.
Each voice works with text in both Tamil script and Sourashtra script, making four models in all.
Training used a speech corpus from the SPIRE Lab of the Indian Institute of Science with more than 28 hours of gender-balanced recordings from one male and one female voice artist; the male model was trained on about 10,000 utterances and the female model on about 11,400.
The models generate audio at 22,050 Hz and work directly on character-level text, and the SPICOR TTS 3.0 Sourashtra Corpus is available on the AIKOSH platform.
Models released:
4
Speech corpus:
more than 28 hours
Sourashtra speakers, Census 2011:
about 2.48 lakh
Audio sampling rate:
22,050 Hz
Why it matters for exams: BHASHINI is the Centre's language technology mission and questions ask which ministry runs it and which low-resource languages it has covered.
Kerala PSCUPSC
In plain words
TTS Text-to-Speech — Software that converts written text into spoken audio.
BHASHINI Bhasha Interface for India — The Union government's platform for Indian language translation and speech technology, run by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
16 October 2026
The sixth meeting of the National Steering Committee on PM-SETU approved five Strategic Investment Plans worth ₹1,194.92 crore.
The clusters are Kataka in Odisha, Pune and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in Maharashtra, and Jammu and Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir.
Tata Steel Foundation takes Kataka at ₹240.50 crore, BVG India Limited takes Pune at ₹241 crore and Belrise Industries Limited takes Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar at ₹238.01 crore.
Eagle Infra India Limited takes Jammu at ₹240 crore and Inderdeep Infra India Limited takes Srinagar at ₹235.41 crore.
Cumulative approved investment under PM-SETU now stands at ₹3,687 crore.
The meeting was chaired by Debashree Mukherjee, Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, and 3,744 trainers have been trained through National Skill Training Institutes under Component II as of October 2026.
Investment approved:
₹1,194.92 crore
Cumulative PM-SETU investment:
₹3,687 crore
Clusters approved:
5
Trainers trained under Component II:
3,744
Why it matters for exams: PM-SETU is the Centre's flagship ITI upgradation scheme and examiners ask which ministry runs it and how its hub-and-spoke cluster model works.
Kerala PSCUPSCSSC
In plain words
ITI Industrial Training Institute — A government or private institute that gives trade-wise vocational training after school.
MSDE Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship — The Union ministry responsible for vocational training and skilling programmes.
16 October 2026
Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama said he would not resign after three days of clashes in the capital Tirana, where demonstrators have demanded that he step down.
Thousands of students took to the streets and attacked several government buildings on the second day of the protests.
The demonstrations began outside the Ministry of Education, with students calling for better university conditions and job prospects.
Part of the education ministry building was set on fire, while the prime minister's office and the finance and interior ministries and surrounding businesses were also attacked.
Riot police clashed with protesters and used tear gas and water cannons to disperse them.
Deputy Prime Minister Albana Kociu called for calmness, self-restraint and maturity and said Albania does not need to burn to change, while Education Minister Mirela Kumbaro said civic student protest and violence against public buildings are two different things.
Prime Minister:
Edi Rama
Capital:
Tirana
Days of clashes:
3
Why it matters for exams: Albania, its capital and its head of government are map and polity facts, and student movements abroad recur in current affairs.
Kerala PSCUPSC
16 October 2026
At least 33 pupils and a teacher were killed when a school roof collapsed in Peshawar in north-western Pakistan, according to hospital officials.
More than a dozen others were injured, some in a critical condition.
Emergency services were called to the private Al-Khair school in Dir Colony at 08:48 local time after lessons had begun.
Rescue official Bilal Faizi said the roof of an upper-floor classroom collapsed, causing ceilings below to cave in and trapping children under the debris.
Peshawar police chief Mian Saeed said classrooms on three floors were brought down, with about 30 pupils in the top class, 40 in the middle and 45 on the ground floor.
The police chief said the school's owner had been taken into custody and promised a thorough inquiry into whether there were any violations of building codes; emergency official Arif Khattak said the building had been constructed on a temporary basis.
Pupils killed:
At least 33
City:
Peshawar
Floors of classrooms brought down:
3
Why it matters for exams: Large disasters in neighbouring countries and the safety questions they raise appear in general awareness papers.
Kerala PSCUPSCSSC
16 October 2026
The Digital India BHASHINI Division, under the Digital India Corporation of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, held the BHASHINI Rajyam Workshop, Manipur Chapter, in Imphal on 14 October 2026 with the Department of Information Technology of the Government of Manipur.
The workshop explored ways to advance multilingual artificial intelligence, strengthen language technology and bring Indian language solutions into government and citizen-facing digital services.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Division and the Government of Manipur by Amitabh Nag, Chief Executive Officer of the Division, and Somorjit Salam, Secretary of Information Technology in Manipur.
The MoU aims to strengthen cooperation in language technology, improve language resources and explore multilingual digital services across the state.
Chief Minister of Manipur Yumnam Khemchand Singh said linguistic diversity is a valuable strength and that the state is exploring ways to bring more of Manipur's languages into the digital space.
The workshop gave an overview of BHASHINI's Language-First Digital Public Infrastructure and its ecosystem of language datasets, artificial intelligence models, application programming interfaces and applications.
Workshop venue:
Imphal
Date:
14 October 2026
CEO, Digital India BHASHINI Division:
Amitabh Nag
Why it matters for exams: BHASHINI, the ministry behind it and its Language-First Digital Public Infrastructure are common science and technology questions.
Kerala PSCUPSCSSC
In plain words
BHASHINI Bhasha Interface for India — A national mission that builds language datasets and AI models for Indian languages.
16 October 2026
The Supreme Court held that fees for the entire duration of a professional course must be notified before admission and should not be altered during the course except in exceptional circumstances.
A bench of Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Justice Alok Aradhe said fee revision is permissible only on a fee fixation committee's recommendation, based on estimated expenditure and with a minimum three-year gap, and that committees must recommend well in advance so decisions are taken before admissions begin.
The Court said a student entering a four or five year professional programme should ordinarily know, at the very threshold, the financial liability that the student or the family is undertaking.
Costs rising unexpectedly because of extraordinary economic conditions or statutory changes can justify a narrowly defined revision, but such adjustment must remain an exception and cannot become a substitute for timely assessment and proper institutional planning.
Partly allowing appeals by Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College and other self-financing colleges, the Court rejected the Calcutta High Court's reasoning on retrospectivity and estoppel and set aside its judgment to that extent; the High Court had confined the revised fee notification to students admitted on or after 16 October 2023 and directed refund or adjustment of the enhanced fees collected.
The West Bengal Higher Education Department had notified a revised fee ceiling of Rs 1,10,000 per annum per student on 16 October 2023, after which the college revised its fees from January 2024 and added a development fee, resulting in a 37.5 per cent increase.
Bench:
Justices Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Alok Aradhe
Revised fee ceiling in West Bengal:
Rs 1,10,000 per annum per student
Fee increase at the college:
37.5 per cent
Why it matters for exams: Fee regulation of self-financing professional colleges is a recurring education and governance question.
Kerala PSCUPSCSSC
In plain words
Fee fixation committee State committee that fixes fees of self-financing colleges — A statutory body that determines the fees private professional colleges may charge.
16 October 2026
The state-level closing ceremony of the Social Solidarity Fortnight, observed from October 2 to 15, was held at the Mahatma Ayyankali Hall in Thiruvananthapuram.
Minister for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes Welfare K.A. Thulasi said society must work together to end caste discrimination, malpractices and social hierarchy, and that legal measures must be backed by real public awareness.
She said pending applications in the department are to be cleared by December 31.
Special attention will go to road access in Idamalakudy, the distinct living conditions of the Cholanaikkar community in Nilambur, and travel and health issues in Attappadi.
Padma Shri Lakshmikuttyamma and Deputy Director Siddharth, who wrote the campaign slogan, were honoured at the function.
Trophies were given to model residential schools for last year's SSLC and Higher Secondary results, along with Higher Secondary merit awards and micro-credit loans from the Backward Classes Development Corporation. Vithura Grama Panchayat President S. Sindhu presided.
Fortnight observed:
October 2 to 15
Venue:
Mahatma Ayyankali Hall, Thiruvananthapuram
Deadline for pending applications:
December 31
Why it matters for exams: The tribal communities named here, and the fortnight itself, are regular Kerala PSC social justice questions.
Kerala PSCUPSC
In plain words
Cholanaikkar A forest-dwelling community of the Nilambur hills — One of Kerala's most isolated tribal communities, living in the Nilambur forests.