Chengannur: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan criticised the BJP-led Union government for omitting significant historical and scientific facts from school textbooks, stating that the southern state shows a way of revising lessons to instil historical awareness and scientific thinking in children.

Speaking after laying the foundation stone of the new building Angadikkal Government Higher Secondary School, Vijayan said that the country can be proud of the Kerala model of public education.

Though the Centre has attempted to remove the Gandhi assassination from certain textbooks, the Kerala government has decided to revise the lessons to "inculcate historical awareness and scientific thinking in children," he said. 

For this, the state has formulated four missions in the education sector, including the General Education Protection Act. The government is taking up projects not just for infrastructural development but also ones that promote the overall growth and performance of the students, he opined.

Urging the teachers to change according to the changing times, Vijayan claimed that in the last seven years, 10 lakh new students joined the public education (government schools) in Kerala, and over 45,000 classrooms were made hi-tech.