However, no students had skipped the respective columns during admission in any vocational higher secondary schools in the state, the minister said in a reply to a question by D K Murali of CPI(M).
Over one lakh children in Kerala have left columns relating to caste and religion blank in school admission records in Kerala last year, Education Minister C Ravindranath told the state Assembly today.
In a written reply, he said that as many as 1,24,147 children had not filled up the columns while enrolling in different standards of the government and government-aided schools during 2017-18 academic year.
Most of these children were students of classes 1 to 10, he said. As many as 275 of them were studying in plus one and 239 in plus two, he said.
