Campaign to enroll 500‚000 children in schools begins

Monday, September 9th, 2013 9:55:47 by

A three-day special campaign to enroll five hundred thousand out of school children in schools was launched across Pakistan on Monday, officials said.

The federal‚ provincial‚ Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan governments would aggressively participate in the campaign to achieve the target.

During the campaign‚ children of school going age would be enrolled with the cooperation of local communities.

Twenty thousand non-formal schools working under the administrative control of the federal government would add five children each during the campaign. The remaining four hundred thousand children would be enrolled by the provincial governments.

According to an estimate‚ over six point five million children of age group of five to nine and twenty-five million of five to sixteen years of age are out of school in the country.

Ministers say that education is one of the top priorities of the PML(N) Government and it is committed to increase literacy through education emergency envisaging launching of crash programmes.

 

 

Tags: , , ,

Short URL: https://www.newspakistan.pk/?p=41563

Posted by on Sep 9 2013. Filed under Education, Latest News, National, Pakistan. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

You must be logged in to post a comment Login

Join WishFree.com

Photo Gallery

Unique Auction UAE
Log in