School enrolment: Awareness walks held in Lower Dir

Objective was to raise awareness regarding enrolment for education

PESHAWAR: The elementary and secondary education department arranged a walk on Thursday in Talash, Lower Dir to raise awareness for enrolment in educational institutes.

Speakers on the occasion said the state, society, parents and teachers should join hands to improve the literacy rate in the country. They insisted the government could do nothing if parents and the society at large do not contribute in promoting education.

Teachers, students, parents and community elders took part in the walk. Participants carried banners and placards.

District Deputy Education Officer Ali Haider, Anjuman Tajaran Talash President Dr Noor Muhammad and Timergara tehsil nazim Riaz Muhammad were among those who addressed participants of the walk.

On the other hand, the department of sociology and social work in University of Malakand in collaboration with National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) also organised an awareness walk in Chakdara, Lower Dir for the same purpose.

The varsity’s students, social and political activists, participated in the walk.

Addressing a seminar after the walk, NCHD Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Director Anwar Iqbal and other representatives from the organisation said education is the basic right of every child. They added it was the responsibility of the state to provide education to all children in the country.

As per the representatives, education was the key to success and development and university students and teachers should play their role in bringing out-of-school children to education institutions.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 22^nd,  2016.