The document summarizes the key educational plans of Pakistan from 1955-1975. It discusses the objectives, targets, and outcomes of the 1st-4th Five Year Plans for education in Pakistan. The plans aimed to expand primary education, increase enrollment rates, build new schools, train more teachers, and improve education quality. However, the summaries note that the plans largely failed to achieve their targets and objectives due to insufficient funding and a lack of priority given to education development.

1. Assignment
Subject: Development of Education
Topic: Four, Five Year Educational Plans of Pakistan
Presented by: Nazish Jamali
Batch: 2016
Semester: 01
Submission Date: 01-06-2016

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Table of contents
Topics…………………………………………………..Page No.
First Four Five Years Educational Plans of Pakistan ……….….. 03
1. First Five Year plan 1955-60 ……………………………… 04
2. Second Five Year plan 1960-65. ………………………… 07
3. Third Five Year plan 1965-70. …………………………... 09
4. Fourth Five Year plan 1970-75. ………………………… 12
Conclusion ……………………………………………………………….…….... 13
Reference

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First Four Five Years Educational Plans of Pakistan
First five year
plan 1955-60
Second five year
plan 1960-65
Third Five year
plan 1965-70
Fourth five year
plan 1970-75

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First five year plan 1955-1960
The first five year plan of education in Pakistan start from 1955 to 1960. The First
Five Year Plan was launched two and a half years late in December 1957. In this
plan It announced that “a system of universal primary education is very
important. Primary education is necessary to prepare citizens for the discharge of
their independent and civic household tasks and to supply them with equivalent
opportunities for economic and cultural progression. It is necessary to the nation
as a base for the complete formation of secondary and higher education from
which will approach leadership in all walks of life and hold up for

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technological improvement in agriculture and engineering.” While no specific
targets were recognized, a worldwide system of free and compulsory primary
education, including for girls, was expected to be in place in about twenty years,
i.e., about from 1975 to 1980.
That Plan was proposed to add 4000 new schools but to the 15,602 schools
already in existence in the country. Extra or additional schools were also planned
to be built under the Village-AID programme. The numbers of qualified primary
teachers were to be increased from about 75,000 trained teachers to about
118,500 raising the percentage of trained teachers in primary schools from about
65 percent to 85 percent. These additions were estimated to increase school
enrolment by about 600,000 to one million children, and increase the primary
enrolment ratio from 43 percent to 49 percent. The quality and content of
primary school teaching was recognized as poor and provisions made for teacher
preparation, program of study development and provision of teaching aids. “The
foundations laid for primary education during this plan period will authorize a
quick advance on a sound and confident origins towards the goal of worldwide
free compulsory primary education”, It was claimed. The Plan was dedicated
considerable concentration to the organization and management characteristics
of primary education. in the middle of other things, it considered "the possibility

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of representing local school management committees and district suggested
boards, nominated by the members of the community and which should be
responsible for given that school buildings, for discussing with with the area
education officers on the selection of teachers and the school programme, and
for supplementing the school supplies and learning resources given by the
directorate. The goal of this plan was universal free compulsory education. In
order to achieve different targets set during the plan period, sum of Rs.58070
million was to be paid for the education sector of the plan.
The activities during the First Plan period, despite the fact that by no means
unimportant, were in more than a few respects disappointing. No major
improvements in the quality of school education were made. Primary school
enrolment did not increase to the amount expected. With respect to the training
of teachers, in this plan no increase was registered at the primary level, and the
First Plan considered 4,000 new primary schools in West Pakistan to be added
during the Plan period only 2,400 primary schools were opened it was anticipated
that during the Plan period enrolment in primary schools would increase by about
one million. The actual increase was only 440,000.

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Second five year plan 1960-1965
Second Year plan was start from 1960 to 1965. The Second Five Year Plan, which
included the suggestions of the 1959 Policy, in this plan they were claimed that
education is supreme task. And said education will protect our national identity,
faith, unity and discipline. They said we cannot achieve greatness, dignity,
prosperity, goal and objective. Education is supreme task for our country.
The necessary objectives must be to provide an educated leadership, a
responsible citizenry, and qualified manpower.
No uneducated community has progressed far in the contemporary world, and no
educated community with proposal and leadership has remained toward the

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back. An uneducated society sticks to societies, civilization, and unfashionable
practices; it refuse to accepts the forces of change which encourage the
achievement of new knowledge and new skills.
The Second Plan to be paid Rs 990 million or 66 percent of the total 5-year social
sector spends to primary education. It proposed to increase the proportion of
children in the 6 years to 11 years age group attending school from 42.3 percent
to 50 percent by 1965. It make available for the opening of 15,200 new primary
schools, in addition to the 18,000 presented ones. These efforts were estimated
to increase primary school enrolment in west Pakistan by 1.2 million, increasing
the primary enrolment rate from 36 to 56 percent. Improving the curriculum
content, condition of teaching aids, and teacher training also received great
concentration. The education of girls received special concentration. It was stated
that “of the 4.7 million children at this time attending primary schools, only 1.1
million are girls. Without a doubt the girls must be provided with much superior
chances for primary education. This will be done both by admitting girls to more
of the existing primary schools, and by guarantee that were divided facilities are
compulsory a much larger percentage is allocated to schools for girls.

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Third five year plan 1965-1970
Third five year plan was start from 1965 to 1970. In the third year plan to be paid
Rs 2652 million or 5.1 percent of the total 5-year expenditure to primary
education. It accepted the concept of education as a very important national
investment and a major determination of the nation’s economic growth. In this
plan government of Pakistan set following objectives of educational planning in
the country:
1. to provide an educational system which would make possible transition into a
period of science and technology, advance political, social and economic

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development and bring the country’s religious and cultural tradition into
agreement with the modern world;
2. to provide the youth of the country with conditions advantageous to the full-
grown development of their human being capacities and character;
3. to increase the superiority of education at all levels so that it may correctly
submit its nation building tasks.
estimate the Second Plan it confirmed that Conscious understanding of the high
positive relationship between educational effort and the growth of the nation was
properly reflected in the foundation of the Second Plan which in monetary
conditions represents a five-fold increase over the First. It highly praised the
information that two million added children were brought under primary
education during this period, as against a target of 1.2 million. The aimed of the
third plan at expanding the base of primary education and planned to increase
the primary enrolment ratio from 45 percent to 70 percent in 1970. This difficult
to understand further enrolment of 2.8 million children in primary schools by
1970. To this end, 42,500 new schools were proposed to be set up in West
Pakistan. Interest was also paying attention on improving preservation rates,
teacher training, teacher salaries, teaching aids, and physical condition of schools.
The purpose of third year plan was increase the primary enrolment rate from 45%

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to 70%. But there was only 20% students enrolled in the schools. They claimed we
will open 42,500 new schools. And they also claimed we will increase teacher’s
salary and also teachers training. And said we will increase the use of the new
technology, but all claimed were failed.

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Fourth five year plan 1970-1975
Fourth Five year plan was start from 1970 to 1975. Fourth five year plan were
discarded after the fall of Dhaka East Pakistan. This plan was by passed by prime
minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Annual plans only were prepared and it was mostly
ignored pervious all plans were failed. After the war Zulfiqar Bhutto give policy
during in three months. But this plan was not success because at that time lot of
problems in our country, so they not make policy

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Conclusion
All the plans have shown a consistent neglect of education in general
education in particular. All the brave words in the plan documents
have never been matched with appropriate funds. It shows that
society, as a whole does not realize the important of Education.
Things will improve only when a collective will so desires it. We have
to awaken to it.
Reference
1. Government of Pakistan. First Five Year plan 1955-60. The planning
commission, Islamabad. 1955.
2. Government of Pakistan. Second Five Year plan 1960-65. The
planning commission, Islamabad. 1960.
3. Government of Pakistan. Third Five Year plan 1965-70. The planning
commission, Islamabad. 1965.
4. Government of Pakistan. Fourth Five Year plan 1970-75. The
planning commission, Islamabad. 1970.