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ISLAMABAD: Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood has announced that Prime Minister Imran Khan would formally launch new Single National Curriculum (SNC) on Monday (tomorrow).
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad today (Sunday), the minister said the curriculum had already been implemented in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Balochistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, whereas it was not yet implemented in Sindh.
“The new curriculum would be implemented in all public, private schools and Madaris at once”, he added. Shafqat Mahmood further said model textbooks have been prepared from class one to five which are being implemented.
He said that private publishers would be allowed to publish the books according to the curriculum. “The new curriculum from grade one to five will be implemented from Monday”, he informed.
However, the education minister said it will be implemented from class 6th to 8th from next year while from 9th to 12th from 2023. “The current curriculum was based on injustice where poor people were getting a specific education,” he pointed out.
He said the present system was facilitating specific peoples which is injustice. “Those who were getting education in normal schools and Madaris would have to face difficulties in life”, he added.
The Minister said that the current education system had divided the society and education was like a lens through which we see the society. “When lens will be different then society will be viewed through different angles”, he said.
He said that creating passion of nationalism was an important task. “If a school can teach additional subjects, we have no objection” he added.