NCHD to impart education to 1100 rural women

 

Staff Reporter

National Commission for National Development will educate 1100 villager women in different centres set up in district Muzaffargarh. While talking to APP, General Manager Malik Kher Muhammad disclosed that the organisation had imparted basic education to 76,000 women. He said women education was vital to put the country on road to progress and prosperity. Local Community leader Muhammad Ismail lamented that the education among women was ignored deliberately and its results was backwardness.

Shehzad Khalid, a senior admin officer Parco inaugurated the “Taaleem-e-Balghan” set up in Basti Almani. Shehzad Khalid said women’s education was necessary for national progress. Earlier,a public dialogue organised by the National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) urged to raise the critical need to invest time, energy, thought and funding in girls’ and women’s education especially as it is directly linked with the overall progress of the nation. The seminar was organised to mark Global Action Week (GAW) 2011 on Education for All (EFA). The seminar highlighted that 73% of boys’ enrolment as compared to only 57% of girls in Pakistan and even when having enrolled, girls are less likely to complete primary education, due to poverty, traditions and lack of protection. 

Speakers at the seminar called on government and all stakeholders in the education sector to pay critical attention to issues concerning girls’ education in the country. Under Article 25 - A, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, “education is a fundamental right for children 5-16 years, requiring urgent actions for access, equity and equality.” A crucial factor in this regard is mother’s literacy rate, which helps in determining children’s education and health. In Pakistan (rural), only one in three women are literate, according to Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2010 which was conducted in 32 rural districts of Pakistan. UNESCO representative Tahira stated “investment in girls’ education is possibly the best investment that can be made in the developing world.” She regretted that “54% Pakistanis are living in extreme poverty and unless integrated poverty reduction plan is not adopted we cannot develop as an educated state.”

A report by daily Pakistan Observer dated 22.5.2011