https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=182.64.163.63Bharatpedia - User contributions [en]2026-08-21T06:16:27ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.43.6https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kerala_Education_Act_1958_(Act_6_of_1959)&diff=171781Kerala Education Act 1958 (Act 6 of 1959)2021-09-04T07:21:34Z<p>182.64.163.63: Fixed typo</p>
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The '''Education Bill'''<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Kerala Education Bill (L. A. Bill No. 14 of 1957)|url=http://www.firstministry.kerala.gov.in/pdf/bills/k_edu_bl.pdf|access-date=30 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924013354/http://www.firstministry.kerala.gov.in/pdf/bills/k_edu_bl.pdf|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> was introduced in the [[Kerala]] assembly by Professor [[Joseph Mundasseri]], who was then the education minister for the first elected (1957) [[Communist Party of India]] government.<ref name="Raveendran">{{Cite book|author=Raveendran, P. P.|year=2002|title=Joseph Mundasseri|location=New Delhi|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=mU7zHtik0ZoC&pg=PA81 81]|isbn=978-81-260-1535-1}}</ref> This bill was aimed at eradicating the malpractices prevalent in the private sector educational institutes,and attempted to regulate the educational institutions' function, including standardizing syllabi and pay structures.<ref name="Tilak">{{Cite book|author=Mathew. A.|year=2003|chapter=Education in Kerala at Cross Roads: Some Critical Aspects|editor=Tilak, Jandhyala B. G.|title=Education, Society, and Development: National and International Perspectives|location=New Delhi|publisher=A.P.H. Pub. Corp. for National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration|pages=357&ndash;366, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Lxe0WeZ5R50C&pg=PA365 page 365]|isbn=978-81-7648-526-5}}</ref> The [[Saint Thomas Christians|Syrian Christian church]] and [[Nair Service Society]], along with opposition parties, including [[Indian National Congress]], started the liberation struggle to overthrow the [[E. M. S. Namboodiripad]] government.<ref name="Guha">{{Cite book|author=Guha, Ramachandra|year=2011|title=India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy|location=London|publisher=Pan Macmillan|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=8FKepYC6wzwC&pg=PA293 293]|isbn=978-0-330-39611-0}}</ref><ref name="Raveendran" /><br />
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The Education Bill sought to regulate appointments and conditions of teachers. Salaries of teachers were to be paid through the treasury. There was a provision of takeover of management of educational institutions, which arguably violated the constitution.<ref name="SCR-Das">''In the premises, they may, in our opinion, legitimately complain that so far as the grants under Art. 337 are concerned, the provisions of the clauses of the Bill mentioned in question 2 do in substance and effect infringe their fundamental rights under Art. 30(1) and are to that extent void.'' Paragraph 44 ''But no rule to be framed under clause 36(2)(c) can nullify the constitutional infirmity of clause 3(5) read with clause 20 which is calculated to infringe the fundamental rights of minority communities in respect of recognised schools to be established after the commencement of the said Bill.'' Paragraph 48{{Cite web|author=Das, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of India|title=In Re: The Kerala Education Bill, ... vs Unknown on 22 May, 1958|work=1959 1 SCR 995|url=http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/161666/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101114000342/http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/161666/|archivedate=14 November 2010|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|author=Rai, Udai Raj|year=2011|title=Fundamental Rights and Their Enforcement|location=New Delhi|publisher=PHI Learning|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=sq5Hj5bcd-MC&pg=PA648 648&ndash;651]|isbn=978-81-203-4432-7}}</ref> Nevertheless, the Supreme Court rejected the appeal and the bill received the assent of the president of India.<ref name="Guha" /><br />
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Even though the Education Bill failed to pass{{Citation needed|date=June 2016}} through the Assembly,<ref name="Tilak" /> many of its provisions were later implemented by subsequent governments with amendments.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Indian Planning Commission|year=2008|title=Kerala Development Report|location=New Delhi|publisher=Academic Foundation|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ul-OkF5gUJQC&pg=PA63 63–64]|isbn=978-81-7188-594-7}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Educational administration]]<br />
[[Category:History of Kerala (1947–present)]]<br />
[[Category:Education law in India]]<br />
[[Category:Kerala state legislation]]<br />
[[Category:Education in Kerala]]<br />
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