State General Education Minister V Sivankutty said that presently Constitutional rights, principles and duties are taught in high school, however there is a need to educate children not simplest about their rights, but also how to defend the equal.
The Kerala government is thinking about consisting of look at of sure laws, like those related to use of narcotic materials, surroundings pollutants, cyber crimes and offences against girls, as a part of faculty curriculum so that youngsters are privy to their rights and a way to protect the identical.
He stated that to show the youngsters into responsible and upstanding residents of the next day it became vital to consist of the examine of sure laws as part of their training.
The minister was responding to a submission by CPI MLA V R Sunil Kumar in the state assembly on Monday that school children should be taught about various laws, like the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act and legal provisions against dowry and use of drugs.
He contended that these legal guidelines and the punishment supplied underneath them for diverse offences ought to study to school youngsters from high school onwards in order that by the time they skip out from class 12, they are aware what is legal and what isn’t.
Concurring with the concept of Sunil Kumar, the minister said that the faculty training policy become present process a consolidated reform and public discussions will be held to invite perspectives on what all ought to be blanketed in faculty curriculum.
