Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan has stated that Azad Jammu and Kashmir has the honor of being the first to introduce a comprehensive policy on education that integrates IT, entrepreneurship, math and scientific and religious studies”. He stated that approval of the education policy would go a long way to promote quality education in the state. He said “Educated Kashmir” was the vision of his government.
The Education Policy 2023-2040 has been announced in Azad Jammu Kashmir after the State cabinet, on Saturday, formally approved the policy for Elementary and Secondary Schools, official sources said. The state cabinet met in an extraordinary session at Jammu Kashmir House in the federal metropolis with Prime Minister Sardar Tanvir Ilyas Khan in the chair, official sources told APP Saturday evening. As per the policy a public awareness campaign under the slogan “Education compulsory for every child, exemplary school, exemplary society” will be launched all across the state to enrol out-of-school children in schools.
The academic year will start from March and books would be provided free of cost to students up to primary. The teachers training academy will be established to raise the educational standard. Later speaking on this occasion, the AJK Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan said that the cabinet members should be given a detailed briefing on all its details regarding the education policy. Stressing the need for improving the curriculum and teaching methods, the PM said that problems of the education sector would be solved under the proposed education policy.
“Azad Jammu and Kashmir has the honor of being the first to introduce a comprehensive policy on education that integrates IT, entrepreneurship, math and scientific and religious studies”, he said. The approval of the education policy, he said, would go a long way to promote quality education in the state. He said “Educated Kashmir” was the vision of his government. “The government will use all resources to turn this vision into reality”, he said. He said that the national education policy has all-round benefits.
He said that 60 to 70 percent of the problems faced by the Education sector would be solved by the proposed education policy. Regarding the amendment being introduced in the Mirpur Development Authority Act, the cabinet meeting while postponing the agenda item decided that after looking at the procedure of other authorities a decision will be taken about it later. —APP
