Summary:
As many as 20,000 vacant seats were reported in higher secondary schools in southern and central districts. Satheesan, vice-president, KSTA, said Education Minister C.
Ravindranath had promised to address any issue arising out of shortage of Plus One seats. Sources in government higher secondary schools said they faced staff shortage too. Mr.
Antony said instead of increasing the number of Plus One seats, the government should have transferred some of the excess batches in the southern districts to schools facing shortage. There was a shortage of 60,000 seats in these districts, the highest being in Malappuram, Palakkad and Kozhikode districts..