
School education in Kerala to focus on life skills
The Hindu
Enrolment in schools has gone up, says Governor
The State government will enhance the quality of school education to make it more oriented towards development of life skills, Governor Arif Mohammed Khan said in his policy address on Friday. The enrolment of students in government and aided schools in the State had gone up considerably. Improvement of infrastructural standards across all levels of schools had led to the increase in enrolment, Mr. Khan said.
The municipal bus stand auditorium in Malappuram was packed. But nobody quite knew what to expect. After all, a new event was making its debut at the State School Arts Festival. The moment V.G. Harikrishnan started his rendition of Pyar bhare do sharmile nain..., everyone was convinced that Ghazal was here to stay. The student from GVHSS, Atholi (Kozhikode), was applauded loudly for his rendering of the timeless ghazal sung originally by Mehdi Hassan.

For the last few weeks, several wards in Madurai city have been getting piped drinking water through a new drinking water scheme. The sweetness of the generously supplied water has led to loss of business to several suppliers of canned drinking water in the city. But, not many know that the water supplied to the houses in Madurai is directly drawn from Lower Dam of Mullaperiyar Dam in Idukki district of Kerala.











