Education Movement of 1962 in brief
In 1959, then president of Pakistan Ayub Khan formed a commission headed by education secretary SM Sharif to make a framework of an education policy. The commission's report was published in 1962 and provoked a student's agitation in former East Pakistan (Now peoples republic of Bangladesh) because of some anti-poor biased feature. Finally Ayub Khan suspended activation of that policy. Police action against mass demonstration. After independence of Pakistan, central government showed step motherly attitude to its eastern part, Bangladesh. Even number of educational institutes also decreased. As a result dropout rate increased within a short time. In 1958 General Ayub Khan proclaimed martial law as well as became president. His government formed a commission on national education lead by SM Sharif, the then West Pakistan Education Secretary. There were ten other members of the committee apart from the chairmen. In its report they defined education as a productive ...