Supporting education: NCHD running 5,949 feeder schools

Have 355,000 enrollment with 6,000 adult functional literacy centres, says commission’s chairperson Razina Alam Khan

ISLAMABAD: As many as 5,949 formal feeder schools of National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) are functional across the country with 355,000 enrollment along with 6,000 adult functional literacy centres, said the commission’s chairperson Razina Alam Khan on Monday.

Briefing senior management meeting about NCHD's plan of skill development, training programmes along with imparting education, she observed that the initiatives would provide employment opportunities to the illiterates by making them skilled workers.

She said NCHD had started adult literacy programme for the mothers and universal primary education through its feeder schools in the remote areas for the unprivileged children.

"It is encouraging to note that the number of out of school children has decreased to 22.8 million, now we have to make them all bright stars and to stop dropouts from schools," she stressed.

It was target to achieve targets of 90% literacy rate and 100% enrollment by 2025, she maintained.

Establishment of non-formal schools in Islamabad in collaboration with JICA Pakistan, and running of 100 madrassa feeder schools for mainstreaming the children with universal primary education, community learning centres, and school health programs for children and adult literacy centres at workplace and jails were commission’s successful innovations, she observed.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 20^th, 2018.