ISLAMABAD, Aug 30: The University Grants Commission has completed the revision of curricula of 41 disciplines at graduate and postgraduate levels under a programme launched by the ministry of science and technology.

A press release issued here on Friday said that under the project, curricula of 57 disciplines were to be finalised. The ministry will spend Rs9 million on the project.

The curricular development activity is to be completed in three phases. The first and second phase of the project have been completed.

The ministry has set up committees of experts in various disciplines to review, update the curricula at graduate and postgraduate levels. The science and technology minister, Ataur Rahman, himself has been constantly monitoring the project.

In the first phase, which ended in July 2001, the curricula for 26 disciplines were finalised which includes computer sciences and information technology, pharmacy, agriculture economics, food technology, vet parasitology, animal breeding and genetics, vet clinical medicine and surgery, livestock management, animal reproduction, animal physiology and pharmacology, animal nutrition, poultry husbandry, vet pathology, vet anatomy, vet microbiology, rural sociology, agronomy, horticulture, entomology, plant breeding and genetics, plant pathology, plant protection, crop physiology, soil science, agri education extension and food technology.

The curricula development of 15 subjects was completed in second phase ending in July 2002. The disciplines included biotechnology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, statics, zoology, computer engineering, biochemistry, electronics, genetics, microbiology, geography, fresh water biology, geology and physiology.

All 41 finalised curricula have referred to the universities for adoption and implementation.

In the third phase, the curricula of 16 disciplines will be chalked out/revised.