Govt. increases Plus One seats

20% more seats from Palakkad to Kasaragod and 10% from Thiruvananthapuram to Thrissur

The government has decided to increase the Plus One higher secondary seats in district from Palakkad to Kasaragod by 20% and those from Thiruvananthapuram to Thrissur by 10%. Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty on Wednesday said that as many as 4,19,651 students had passed the SSLC examinations this year. However, the number of existing Plus One higher secondary seats in the State was 3,61,307. There were 33,000 seats in the VHSE sector and 49,140 seats in ITIs, 19,080 in polytechnics. In all, the number of seats came to 4,62,527. In the government and aided sector alone, there were 3,06,150 seats.