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Six Point Movement Overview 1966

The Six Point Movement was a 1966 movement in East Pakistan led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman that called for greater autonomy and realization of six demands to address discrimination faced by East Pakistanis. The six points included provisions for provincial autonomy in government, currency, taxation, foreign exchange, trade, and a separate militia. Though the movement failed to achieve its goals, it created political awakening in East Pakistan and galvanized the population to seek economic emancipation and self-determination through decentralization based on the region's own resources.

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Six Point Movement Overview 1966

The Six Point Movement was a 1966 movement in East Pakistan led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman that called for greater autonomy and realization of six demands to address discrimination faced by East Pakistanis. The six points included provisions for provincial autonomy in government, currency, taxation, foreign exchange, trade, and a separate militia. Though the movement failed to achieve its goals, it created political awakening in East Pakistan and galvanized the population to seek economic emancipation and self-determination through decentralization based on the region's own resources.

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Welcome to our

presentation
SIX Point Movement

PRESENTED BY
TEAM
CURIOUS FIVE
SIX POINT MOVEMENT

 The Six Point Movement was a movement in East


Pakistan, spearheaded by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, which
called for greater autonomy for East Pakistan. The
movement’s main agenda was to realize the six demands
put forward by a coalition of Bengali nationalist political
parties in 1966, to West Pakistani rulers.
Background of the moment

Discrimination in all sectors :


 Government Jobs
 Educational Institutions
 Economy
 Armed Forces
 Security
 Culture
 During the 1965 Indo-Pak war the central government never
took essential steps to ensure security of its eastern wing. It
made people hopeless.
The six points

1. The constitution should provide for a Federation of Pakistan in


its true sense based on the Lahore Resolution, and the parliamentary
form of government with supremacy of a Legislature directly elected
on the basis of universal adult franchise.

2. The federal government should deal with only tow subject:


Defense and foreign affairs, and all other residual subjects should be
vested in the federating states.
[Link] separate, but freely convertible currencies for two wings
should be introduced; or if this is not feasible, there should be one
currency for the whole country, but effective constitutional
provisions should be introduced to stop the flight of capital from
East to west Pakistan. Furthermore, a separate Banking Reserve
should be established and separate fiscal and monetary policy
adopted for East Pakistan.

[Link] power of taxation and revenue collections shall be vested in


the federating units and the federal center will have no such power
on the issue. The federation will be entitled to a share in state taxes
to meet its expenditures.
[Link] should be two separate accounts for the foreign exchange
earnings of the two wings; the foreign exchange requirements of the
federal government shall be met by the two wings equally or in ratio
to be fixed; indigenous products shall move free of duty between the
two wings, and the units to establish trade links with foreign countries.

[Link] Pakistan shall have a separate militia or paramilitary force.


 OUTCOME & LEGACY

There is no denying that the Six Point Movement created


an unprecedented political awakening that clearly indicated
that East Pakistan was no longer open to the exploitation
either of its resources or its share of external assistance.
Politically speaking, the Six Point program galvanized an
entire population to seek real economic emancipation by
means of total decentralization of economic decision-
making, to be based on the use of the region's own
resources. It was, indeed, an unique resolve of our self-
determination.
Thank
you all

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