4. Country Profile
Pakistan India Bangladesh
1. Independence Day:
14 August 1947
2. Capital: Islamabad
3. Population 197
million
4. Area 796,095 sq km
(307,374 sq miles),
excluding Kashmir
5. Major languages:
English, Urdu,
Punjabi, Sindhi,
Pashto, Balochi
1. Independence Day:
15 August 1947
2. Capital: New Delhi
3. Population 1.3
billion
4. Area 3.1 million sq
km (1.2 million sq
miles), excluding
Kashmir
5. Major languages:
Hindi, English and more
than 20 other official
languages
1. Independence
Day:
26 March, 1971
2. Capital: Dhaka
3. Population 162
million
4. Area 143,998 sq
km (55,598 sq
miles)
5. Major language:
Bengali
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Pakistan India Bangladesh
6. Major religion: Islam
7. Life expectancy:
66 years (men), 68 years
(women)
8.Currency: Pakistani
Rupee
9. President: Arif Alvi
10. Prime Minister:
Imran Khan
6. Major religions:
Hinduism, Islam,
Christianity, Sikhism,
Buddhism
7. Life expectancy: 67
years (men), 70 years
(women)
8. Currency: Rupee
9. President: Ram Nath
Kovind
10. Prime Minister:
Narendra Modi
6. Major religion Islam,
Hinduism
7. Life expectancy : 69
years (men), 70 years
(women)
8. Currency: Taka
9. President: Ram Nath
Kovind
10. Prime Minister:
Narendra Modi
6. Education Highlights
Pakistan India Bangladesh
Education Minster:
Mr. Shafqat Mahmood
Literacy Rate:
58%
Education Minster:
Prakash Javadekar
Literacy Rate:
74.04%
Education Minster:
Nurul Islam Nahid
Literacy Rate:
72.76%
7. National Education Policies & Plans
Pakistan India Bangladesh
• National Education Conference:
1947
• National Plan of Educational
Development: 1951-57
• First Five Year Plan: 1955-60
• Report of the Commission on
National Education: 1959
• Second Five Year Plan: 1960-65
• Third Five Year Plan: 1965-70
• The New Education Policy: 1970
• Forth Five Year Plan: 1970-75
• The Education Policy: 1972-80
• Fifth Five Year Plan: 1978-83
• National Education Policy 1979
• Sixth Five Year Plan: 1983-88
• University Education
Commission (1948)
• Secondary Education
Commission (1952)
• Indian Education
Commission (1964-66)
• National Policy on
Education (1968)
• Draft National Policy
on Education (1979)
• National Policy on
Education (1986)
• National Policy on
Education (1992)
• The final draft of
the National
Education Policy
2009 was formally
submitted to the
Prime Minister on
7 September,
2009.
• Before 2010, ten
times the
commissions were
formed in different
names and reports
were also
submitted
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Pakistan India Bangladesh
• Seventh Five Year Plan: 1988-93
• National Education Policy: 1992
• Eight Five Year Plan: 1993-98
• National Education Policy: 1998-
2010
• Eight Five Year Plan: 1998-2003
• National Education Policy: 2009
• National Education Policy: 2017
• District Primary
Education Program
(1993-94)
• The Education for All
Movement (2000-2001)
• Right to Education Act
(2009)
• Draft National
education policy 2018
• At last in 2010
National
Education Policy
was formulated
and it is going to
be implemented
from 2013.
9. Educational Institutions
Pakistan India Bangladesh
•Public School System
•Military Schools
•Private Schools
•Elite private schools
•Middle-class English
medium schools
•Second-tier private or
NGO-run schools
•Madaris or Religious
Seminaries
•Universities/Degree-
awarding Institutions
•Degree Colleges, and
•Technical and
Vocational Institutions
• Public School
• Private schools
• Pre Schools
• Primary Schools
• Secondary school
• Comprehensive school
• High school
• Independent school (UK)
• Academy (English school)
• University-preparatory
school
• Coaching Institutes
• Vocational Education
institutes
• Madaris
• Higher Education Institutes
•Primary Schools
•Secondary school
• Technical &
Vocational Education
institutes
•Higher Education
Institutes
•English language
schools
•Madrasah education
10. Enrolment Ratio (In Millions)
Pakistan India Bangladesh
• Pre-Primary : 9.784 million
• Primary: 19.351 million
• Middle: 6.526 million
• High: 3.325 million
• Higher secondary schools:
1.583 million
• Degree college stage: 0.956
million.
• Universities: 1.463 million
• Technical and vocational
institutions: 0.315 million
• Teachers training institutions:
0.724 million
• Deeni Madaris: 2.26 million
Gross enrolment Ratio:
•Pre-Primary : 12.92
•Primary: 114.53
•Secondary: 75.18
•Tertiary Education:
26.93
• Primary: 18.60
• Secondary: 11.84
• College: 3.76
• Madrasah: 2.46
Professional: 1.36
• Teacher Education: 0.034
Technical vocational: 0.87
• University: 0.82
11. Common Problems of Education Systems
• Lack of uniformity
• Outdated curricula
• Lack of resources
• Internal and external
political influences
• Evaluation system
• Lack of quality teachers
• Poor supervisory standards
Alarming dropouts
• Expensive higher education
• Neglect of national
languages
• Problem of Brain drain
• Problems of primary
education
• Missing Innovation &
Creation
• Burden of excess curriculum
Poverty
• Infrastructure related
problems