Keralam government reconstitutes school curriculum steering committee

The Keralam government has reconstituted the school curriculum steering committee.

The committee, chaired by Minister for General Education N. Samsudheen, has Shashi Tharoor, MP; director Adoor Gopalakrishnan; writer Paul Zacharia; novelist George Onakkoor; Olympian P.R. Sreejesh; and MLAs Fathima Thahiliya and Ramesh Pisharody as members.

Achuthsankar S. Nair, vice-chairperson, Kerala State Higher Education Council; Mahani Jaseem, member, Thiruvananthapuram district panchayat; and Divya C. Senan, faculty member in the Department of Education, University of Kerala, are included in the 68-member committee.

The General Education Principal Secretary is its vice-chairperson and director of the State Council of Educational Research and Training its convener. Other members include the director of General Education; Kerala State Planning Board member; directors of Samagra Shiksha Kerala and other agencies under the department; and representatives of teachers’ organisations such as Kerala Pradesh School Teachers’ Association, Kerala School Teachers’ Association, All Kerala School Teachers’ Union, Kerala Arabic Teachers’ Federation, Kerala School Teachers’ Union, Aided Higher Secondary Teachers’ Association, Kerala Higher Secondary Teachers’ Union, and Higher Secondary School Teachers’ Association, and the National Teachers’ Union.

Published - November 12, 2026 06:54 pm IST