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Tamil Nadu will introduce the TN-ARIVU curriculum in government schools from the academic year 2027-28, covering Classes I to XII.
TN-ARIVU stands for Analytical thinking, Reasoning, Innovation, Venture and entrepreneurship, and Upskilling, and includes artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.
The School Education Department placed 31 new initiatives before the Assembly with a total estimated outlay of Rs 44,527 crore.
TN PAL, an AI-powered personalised adaptive learning programme for Classes VI to VIII, will begin in 500 government middle schools at an estimated Rs 70 lakh.
The PLAY initiative reserves one school period every day for sports, arts and co-curricular activities, alongside one no-school-bag day a month.
Education originally sat in the State List of the Seventh Schedule. The 42nd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1976 moved it to the Concurrent List (Entry 25), so both Parliament and State Legislatures can legislate on it, with central law prevailing in case of repugnancy. In practice this leaves States free to design their own curricular frameworks, textbooks and school schemes while national frameworks set the broad direction. TN-ARIVU, TN PAL and the accompanying schemes are exercises of exactly that State competence, funded from the State's own school education budget.
Simple Analogy: The Union sets the road rules; each State still decides where to lay its own roads.
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Tamil Nadu's school curriculum framework for 2027-28 onwards — Analytical thinking, Reasoning, Innovation, Venture and entrepreneurship, Upskilling.
A digital education model that adjusts content and pace to each student's performance; delivered in Tamil Nadu through TN PAL.
Analysis, evaluation and problem-solving, as distinct from recall and comprehension.
List III of the Seventh Schedule, on which both Parliament and State Legislatures may legislate; education was moved here by the 42nd Amendment, 1976.