ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has decided to seek help from provincial education departments and textbook boards for inclusion of anti-corruption themes in school curriculum.

“We want to create awareness among young generation about the menace of corruption and its prevention,” NAB spokesman Ramzan Sajid said on Sunday.

He said the decision had been taken at a meeting held to review the bureau’s awareness and prevention activities being carried out across the country to fight corruption. It was presided over by NAB Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry.

If the plan succeeds it will be the first time in the country’s history that lessons about corruption will be taught at the school level.

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The NAB chief said that even after the adoption of 59 different legislations about ‘enforcement’ as the primary anti-corruption mechanism, no satisfactory steps had been taken to curb the menace.

It was now time to create awareness among the masses about corruption so that flaws in the system were identified and removed, he added.

He directed the bureau’s awareness and prevention division and regional NAB offices to take up the matter with the provincial education departments and textbook boards for inclusion of awareness slogans with NAB monogram on textbooks to be published for classes I to X.

Published in Dawn, June 30th, 2014