Kerala SACS request Educatiion Department to ban unauthorised books

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Kerala SACS request Educatiion Department to ban unauthorised books on

adolescent education

Dear forum

I am herewith attaching a news story publlished by the New Indian

Express on 20th May for your information

Training module on adolescent education

T'PURAM: Kerala State AIDS Control Society (KSACS) has written to

Education Department to instruct the educational institutions to

avail themselves of the technical inputs regarding adolescence

education from KSACS.

In a letter sent to Additional Chief Secretary (Higher Education),

Secretary (General Education), Directors of Vocational Higher

Secondary Education and Directorate of Higher Secondary Education,

the KSACS has urged them to avail themselves of the training module

on adolescent education, prepared by experts and distributed free of

cost.

KSACS has also assured that it could provide trained resource persons

to conduct sessions of adolescent education.

The KSACS has taken the action following the Express report which

appeared on Friday that the book blacklisted by the National AIDS

Control Organisation was being used for an awareness campaign among

the NCC cadets in the state.

KSACS has instructed all these departments to prevent the

distribution of the book 'HIV/AIDS Handbook for Young People' written

by Gracious in the educational institutions of the state.

The Society has also forwarded a copy of the letter and review report

on the book, received from K Sujatha Rao, Director General, National

AIDS Control Organisation to these departments.

''We have also informed them that we are working closely with the

Education Department, Directorate of Public Instruction and SCERT to

implement the Adolescent Education Programme in the schools across

the state,'' Dinesh Arora, Project Director, KSACS said.

''We have also written to the Director, Directorate of NCC,

forwarding the copy of the letter and review report on the book, and

informed them that Kerala State AIDS Control Society is willing to

join hands with NCC to provide technical inputs regarding adolescence

education and provide training module,'' he said.

--

S.Ajai Kumar

Programme Officer IEC

Kerala SACS, Red Cross Road

Thiruvananthapuram - 35. Kerala

e-mail: <ajai.ksacs@...>