The education ministry is set to write to the three states regarding the implementation of PM-SHRI (Express file photo by Bhupendra Rana/representative).

Amid the changes of guard in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala after the Assembly poll results, the Ministry of Education is preparing a fresh push to implement the Centre’s flagship PM Schools for Rising India (PM-SHRI) scheme in these states.

A senior ministry official said that letters will soon be sent to the chief secretaries of the three states, requesting them to formally adopt the scheme. PM-SHRI aims to upgrade existing schools into “exemplar” institutions that showcase the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.

Although PM-SHRI was approved in 2022, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu , and Kerala remain the only states yet to implement the scheme.…