By Express News Service

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Admitting the fact that in spite of achieving progress on several fronts, the state has been way behind in several other sectors, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday said that successive governments could not sustain and build on the good beginning given to the state with the introduction of several progressive reforms by the EMS Ministry.

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Inaugurating the year-long diamond jubilee celebrations of the formation of Kerala at a public meeting organised on Legislative Assembly premises, Pinarayi said that in the last 60 years, Kerala could showcase some exemplary achievements before the country.

“The state could bring down the infant mortality rate, male-female ratio, maternity deaths and school dropout rates. However, it could not make much progress after the land reforms were introduced. We could not consider the scope of group farming to tackle the fragmentation of paddyfields and make farming a profitable calling,” he said.

On the education sector, the successive governments could not build on the virtues of the Education Bill introduced by Joseph Mundassery during the first EMS ministry.

As a result, the governments that followed could not even implement the principles of reservation and dispensation of social justice, he pointed out.