KARACHI: The Sindh School Education and Literacy Department has approved the schedule for the new academic year 2025-26, ARY News reported on Tuesday.As per details, a meeting of Sindh government’s steering committee on education convened to finalize the academic calendar.It has been decided that the new academic year 2025-26 will begin on April 7, 2025, instead of August 1, 2025.For classes 9 and 10, the board exams will take place in April and practical exams scheduled for March.The department’s spokesperson also announced that intermediate exams will be held starting from April 28, 2025.Notably, the academic year 2024-25 in Sindh began on August 1, 2024.Read More: Sindh Universities Amendment Bill 2025 passed by provincial assemblyEarlier, the provincial assembly passed the Sindh Universities Amendment Bill 2025 despite opposition’s protest.Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Law, Ziaul Hassan Lanjar tabled the Sindh Universities Amendment Bill 2025 before the house.The session saw uproar from opposition members, with MQM legislators chanting slogans against the bill.Following the bill’s re-approval in the Sindh Assembly, the objections raised by the Governor of Sindh were rejected.Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori had refused to grant his assent to the bill and returned it to the provincial assembly for reconsideration, raising objections to the new law that expanded the eligibility criteria to the serving bureaucrats for appointment as vice chancellor in public-sector universities.Under Section 3 of the Article 116 of the Constitution if the bill is passed again by the assembly, with or without amendments, the governor must then grant his assent, meaning thereby that if the Sindh Assembly pushes the bill through once again, Governor Tessori will be constitutionally bound to approve it.