GOVERNMENT OF KERALA

NOTIFICATION

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 36 of the Kerala Education Act, 1958

(6 of 1959), the Government of Kerala hereby makes the following rules further to amend the

Kerala Education Rules, 1959, namely:-

General Education (JR) Department

Dated, 5^th December, 2024

20^th Vrischikam, 1200

14^th Agrahayana, 1946.

G.O.(P) No. 28/2024/G.Edn.

Thiruvananthapuram

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Government of Kerala

2024

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KERALA GAZETTE

അസാധാരണം

EXTRAORDINARY

ആധികാരികമായി ്പസിദെപടുതുനത

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

Regn.No. KERBIL/2012/45073

dated 05-09-2012 with RNI

Reg No.KL/TV(N)/634/2021-2023

വാല്ം 13

Vol. XIII

തിരുവനനപുരം,

െവളി

Thiruvananthapuram,

Friday

2024 ഡിസംബർ 06

06th December 2024

1200 വൃശികം 21

21st Vrischikam 1200

1946 അ്ഗഹായനം 15

15th Agrahayana 1946

നമർ

No.

3918

S. R. O. No. 1133/2024

This is a digitally signed Gazette.

Authenticity may be verified through https://compose.kerala.gov.in/

RULES

1. Short title and commencement. — (1) These rules may be called the Kerala Education

(Amendment) Rules, 2024.

(2) They shall come into force at once.

2. Amendment of the rules. — In the Kerala Education Rules, 1959, in Chapter VI, for

sub rule (4) of rule 3, the following sub-rule shall be substituted, namely:-

"(4) If any change of name is sanctioned after the issue of a Public Examination

Certificate, the candidate concerned shall notify the change in name in the Gazette and the

Commissioner for Government Examinations is authorised to make necessary

correction/substitution of name in the certificate on production of such notification before

him."

By order of the Governor,

RANI GEORGE,

Principal Secretary to Government.

Explanatory Note

(This does not form part of the notification, but is intended to indicate its general purport.)

Sub-rule (4) of rule 3 of Chapter VI, Kerala Education Rules, 1959 provides that if any

change of name is sanctioned after the issue of a Public Examination Certificate, the candidates

concerned shall notify the change in name in the Gazette and the notification shall be attached

to his certificate. No correction/ substitution of name in the original entry is contemplated in

the rules. The above rule has created difficulty to candidates, for employment and for pursuing

higher studies in other States and abroad. The Honourable High Court of Kerala in a batch of

Writ Petitions has directed Government to come up with an appropriate procedure to permit

change/substitution of the name of an individual in his educational records.

Government have considered the matter in detail and have issued

G.O(Ms)No.114/2022/GEDN dated 30th June, 2022, permitting the Commissioner for

Government Examinations to carry out necessary correction/substitution of name in the Public

Examination Certificate on the basis of Gazette notification evidencing change of name, by

substituting sub-rule (4) of rule 3 of Chapter VI of the Kerala Education Rules, 1959.

The notification is intended to achieve the above object.

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