Police personnel use water cannons to disperse Muslim Youth League (MYL) activists during their protest march over the shortage of Plus-I seats in the Malabar region, in Thiruvananthapuram, Tuesday, June 25, 2024.
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Thiruvananthapuram: With scarcity of plus-one seats snowballing into a political row in Kerala, the state government decided to allow temporary batches in Malappuram district where the seat shortage was acute.
Education minister V Sivankutty, who held talks with representatives of various students' outfits, said that there was a shortage of nearly 7,500 seats in Malappuram. Hence additional batches will be allowed. A two member panel would be appointed to find modalities for allowing the fresh batch, he said.
So far the government was maintaining that there was no seat scarcity in the state.