By winning the National Youth Parliament competition, the students of KV Pangode were presented with a glimpse of how the country is being run and they say they never have felt more respect towards the democratic system.

The 55 member Parliamentary team from KV Pangode has emerged national topper in the National Youth Parliament Competition organised for Kendriya Vidyalaya schools across the nation by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. National Youth Parliament competition is the enactment of a real parliamentary session by a group of selected students from different Kendriya Vidyalaya schools. A total of 90 schools took part in the competition among 18 different regions from all over the the country.

T N N Namboothiri, the principal of KV Pangode explains further about the competition, “The competition is held exclusively for the Kendriya Vidyalaya schools. From a total of 18 regions in India, five schools are selected from each region to take part in the regional leg of the competition. Trivandrum comes under the Chennai region. We topped the Chennai Regional Competition held at Palakkad and advanced to the zonal level. Three regions make one zone and that makes a total of six zones. We won the zonal competition held at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Ashok Nager, Chennai with the highest aggregate of 84.66%, making us the national winners,” said the proud principal.

K Jaya, a Social Science teacher, was in charge of the whole program, starting right from the preliminary step of preparing the script for the mock- parliament.


“The script had to cover every process taking place in a real parliamentary session step by step with precision. The toughest part, which was also the most important part, was replicating the 'Bill for Consideration and Passing' section where the opposing members and the ruling members engage in a debate on why the Bill should or should not be passed. We selected the Lok Pal Bill issue for this section. After preparing the script we invited interested students for a selection process where they were made to enact portions from the script in both Hindi and English. The assertiveness in their voice, language fluency, and confidence displayed were all taken into account for the selection process. Only students from the 9th, 10th and the 11th standards were considered for selection.”


The students have to display their proficiency during one parliamentary session that would last 55 minutes.The 55 member team from each school consists of students who represent the Prime Minister of India, the Defence Minister, the Home Affairs Minister and various other honorary posts of the nation's political hierarchy. The youth parliamentary competitions are initiated on a yearly basis to inculcate among the young generation the spirit of self discipline, tolerance of diverse opinions, and righteous expression of views and virtues of a democratic way of life.