Ramachandran Nair, J.

Kerala has 12600 and odd schools in the Government; Aided and Unaided sector imparting education mostly in Malayalam under the Kerala syllabus which is not upto the standards of education under the CBSE/ICSE syllabus which is in English. Very few Central Schools are established by the Central Government in big cities mainly for the children of Central Government employees through the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangham and a few schools following CBSE/ICSE syllabus are run by the Armed Forces and few large Central Public Sector Undertakings in their locations. The limited and restricted availability of facility for schooling in English medium under CBSE/ICSE syllabus and consequent public demand for such schools led to establishment of large number of CBSE/ICSE-private schools, which as of now is over 900 in the State. The more intelligent and ambitious lot of students prefer CBSE/ICSE syllabus and the less clever join schools following Kerala syllabus. The demand for CBSE/ICSE schools in the State is on the increase and the same is evident from the fact that more and more CBSE schools are being set up by missionaries, private trusts and other agencies in smal