A committee set up on the directives of the Rawalpindi Bench of the Lahore High Court has recommended a standardized academic calendar requiring schools and colleges across Punjab to complete 190 teaching days each year. As part of the proposal, the committee suggested cutting summer vacations from the current two and a half months to a shorter period of six weeks. The committee convened three times over the last four months and finalized its recommendations during the third meeting. Following the recommendations, Punjab School Education Department Special Secretary Muhammad Iqbal directed PECTA and the Director Public Instruction for Secondary and Elementary education to prepare a uniform academic calendar within three days. The committee’s third meeting took place in Lahore under the chairmanship of the secretary schools education and was presided over by Special Secretary Muhammad Iqbal.