 Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Today we are going to discuss introduction to the national ECC curriculum. A lot of significance has been given to the child care and education ECCE. The thing is that several researchers have supported that early child education helps us in being a good and complete holistic adult. So that's why a number of researchers have been conducted on this topic the world over. It has been studied all over the world. And up to this point we have come to know that our 60% development is completed by 8 years. And then the speed of development is reduced. You develop your brain very quickly in your childhood. Apart from this, there are a lot of researches and philosophies that recommend that early childhood children should be very careful. As I said, early childhood education has not been done yet. In fact, care has been added to it. So we have to develop our child holistically. In such a situation, there have been a lot of declarations for children in the world. And Pakistan is also their signatory. In which, especially the Convention on the Rights of the Child is very important. This is a convention for children's common rights. There are four points. First of all, non-discrimination. Non-discrimination means that our students are not only on the social and economic backgrounds, but on their own interests, on their own history, on their own gender, or if there is any mental or physical deficiency, if the children's interests are low, they should try to fulfill them. And any kind of discrimination, whether it is race discrimination or class discrimination, should not be done. Next is the child's best interest. And where we used to say that in a controlled situation, we will teach all children the same way. That was also suggested. And our socio-social theories, our cognitive theories for children, tell us that we have to keep children's individual interests in front of us. That is one thing. But the interest of a small child is very different than that of a big child. They learn very quickly. They want to explore. They have a lot of power in their investigation. So they have to give them more activities there. And they should be guided. As much as a child grows up, the guided instruction ratio is reduced. But this is not the case here. Then we have to let the child develop only academically. In fact, we have to give him a holistic development. And then the child who keeps his views, which is his point of view, for example, the cognitive theory tells us that when a child is two years old or three years old, he is self-centered. At that time, he understands that everything in the world is mine and that my opinion cannot be understood by other people. For example, if a child goes to someone's house, he will catch a toy and say that it is mine. You keep explaining it to him that it is the toy of that child whose guests have come to his house. But he cannot understand this. In such a situation, it is said that the children have to be taught according to their interests and point of view. And our federal and provincial governments have given these strategies to implement in different institutions, which are our public schools, private schools, and where kindergarten or ECC is being taught, we have to implement these policies there. That is, our children's full rights convention. And additional budget is very important for this. Obviously, when you invest in children, you will prepare equipment for them, you will provide education for them, then you will need additional budget. So, all our governmental agencies, federal and provincial governments need to invest on this. Then there are many schools and institutions where there are no additional classrooms for children. You all know that the basic structure of our primary school consists of only two rooms. You can go to any district, anywhere. So, the small children there, especially the children of Katchi, or pre-nurses who we are addressing, there are no separate rooms for them. So, it is important for the government that the new schools that are being built or the new schools are being planned, they need to be prepared for the new rooms there.