The Education Minister of Kerala, V Sivankutty, has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to reverse the changes made in the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) textbooks. The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) in Kerala had requested the government's permission to release supplementary textbooks for Class 11 and 12, covering topics that had been omitted by NCERT.

The minister expressed concern over the removal of important chapters, such as the evolution theory, which appeared to be not based on academic reasons. Sivankutty stated that removing portions relating to peace, fundamental rights, and development in the NCERT textbooks is an "injustice" to children and would "rob them of the opportunity to become good citizens". He emphasized that the rationalization of the curriculum could not justify the removal of critical concepts from science, history, political science, and economics textbooks.

Kerala will plan on teaching the omitted portions only after discussing with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Meanwhile, the SCERT director stated that the draft copy of the State Curriculum Framework (SCF) will be launched by May 15, and the state officials will begin preparing new textbooks. The SCERT has asked schools across the state to teach the excluded topics in NCERT books for Class 11 and 12. The topics omitted from the History and Political Science textbooks by NCERT include the history of the Mughal Empire, the Gujarat riots, and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.