17/12/2025
A significant shift is underway in Punjab‼️
After nearly four decades, the state’s art curriculum and textbooks are being upgraded. 📈 This shift comes through a long-term collaboration between SCERT Punjab and Slam Out Loud, built over years of working alongside teachers, mentors, and the public education system.
🌻 Punjab has constituted a state-level Art Committee, a first of its kind in India to guide this curriculum process. Instead of rewriting textbooks from a distance, the curriculum will be shaped with practicing art mentors and educators... people who know classrooms, constraints, and children’s realities firsthand.
To support clarity and consistency across the process, a Core Committee has been constituted. This group includes art education experts from colleges and institutions, alongside the Slam Out Loud team, and is responsible for guiding the Working Committee and holding the larger curricular vision and decisions.
🎯 The aim is clear: bring local culture, regional art forms, and contemporary pedagogical thinking back into how art is taught, while aligning with the National and State Curriculum Frameworks. Art is being recognised not as an “extra,” but as a vital way children learn to think, feel, imagine, and connect.
This moment reflects years of groundwork, trust-building, and belief that art belongs at the heart of public education. The work ahead is serious, collective, and long overdue... and it has now officially begun.
Hindustan Times School Education Department, Government of the Punjab Department of School Education, Punjab
