the budget speech by finance minister t m thomas isaac was rich with the poems written by school students each major announcement in the budget was made after quoting relevant sections from the poems written by the students across the state and around 15 such poems were used isaac said that childrens poems were included in the budget to recognize the change in academic excellence and creativity among school studentshe began the budget by quoting the poem by k sneha a class vii student of government high school kuzhalmannam palakkad about keralas successful fight against covid19 and the hope for a new dawn the speech was ended by quoting the lines by k p amal a tribal student of government tribal hss school kannampadi idukkiduring covid the department of education had launched a project called aksharavriksham to illuminate the creativity of children who spend their vacation at home as many as 56399 works were published from 4947 schools this massive literary collection is available on the school wiki website selected writings from them were included in the budgetsneha who lives in a house with a tarpaulin roof at kallekonam in chithali with her parents and sister was wonder struck when she got calls from her teachers and friends to congratulate her the poem starting with day will dawnand sun will rise radiant shows the confidence and spirit of the people of the state in fighting the pandemic the minister remarked she said that she still couldnt believe that her poem caught the attention of the finance minister i am indebted to him for his kindness and encouragement said sneha she also requested the minister to renovate her school which is functioning in a dilapidated rental buildingmany students in my school are talented but we lack basic infrastructure like good classrooms labs etc i request the minister to renovate our school sneha saidlater isaac promised that the issue would be addressed soon