Minister of income K. Rajan addressing the meeting of the CPI district in Irinjalakuda. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The District Conference Thrissur District Conference of the Communist Party of India (CPI) demanded immediate dissolution of the National Test Agency (NTA) and accused it of threatening the future of students and the integrity of the country’s education system.
The resolution held at a four -day conference held in Irinjalakuda condemned repeated inconsistencies and alleged extensive corruption in NTA tests and claims that the agency works without transparency or responsibility.
CPI claimed that NTA had become a breeding ground for leaks of questionnaire and mafia gangs, which transformed the wrong practice of exploring billions of rupees. Students who studied day and night for these tests were thrown into despair, with cases of students’ suicides.
In the resolution, the Party called on the decentralization of liability for the test and restoration of the powers of UGC and universities to ensure transparency and justice.
The conference also increased the strong opposition to the growing intervention of the central government in the Ceral Cooperative Sector, which has long been considered a model for Earth. The CPI criticized this step to allow multiple states to set up branches across Kerala without the state’s consent.
These companies operated without regulation or supervision and created ambiguity around their financial negotiations. Their uncontrolled expansion was a threat to the functioning of traditional cooperative credit companies in the state. The CPI resolution also accused the Center of the use of investigative agencies to destabilize democratic practices in state cooperative companies.
The CPI called on the State Government to adopt a comprehensive law to prevent the superstition and exploitative rituals. She also demanded urgent changes to the Act on the Protection of Wild Animals of 1972 with regard to the increase in the conflicts of human and Tistna in Kerala.
According to CPI, Kerala – due to its extensive forest cover and population density – witnessed growing incidents of attacks on wild animals, which led to more than 40 deaths on human death a year. The party blamed the strict provisions of the Central Right to prevent the effort to protect human lives and property.
While the center released standards for industrial use of protected forests in favor of companies, it refused to change the same law for the protection of communities living in the forest, the party noted.
The conference demanded a wider implementation of food and water systems in forests to reduce the ingress of animals into human habitats and demand urgent reforms to prefer the safety and livelihood of the population and forest.
The four -day meeting will end on Sunday.
Published – July 12, 2025 20:32
