GJC demands constitution, democratic civic education as part of curriculum
The Golden Jubilee Convention of the 1973 Constitution on Monday demanded that the constitution and democratic civic education shall be made a compulsory part of the curriculum.
The National Assembly organized a convention on the 50th Anniversary of the Constitution of 1973 whereas the members of the Parliament presented resolutions on multiple topics of democratic and constitutional significance.
The resolution presented by Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb and unanimously adopted by the Convention held here at the National Assembly Hall also demanded that the Constitution should also be made part of the educational activities of all schools, colleges, universities, training institutions of police and other law-enforcement agencies under the control of the provincial governments.
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb congratulated the nation on the completion of 50 years of the 1973 Constitution.
“It is the book of the rights of the people and the duties of the state institutions, it is the guarantor of unity and consensus, justice and fairness, quality and freedom”, she said in a tweet.—AFP
