Minister’s Admission: Education targets unlikely to be met

ISLAMABAD: State Minister for Education Baligh Ur Rehman has said that the government is not only committed to increasing the education budget to 4% of GDP, but is also dedicated to raising the overall standard of education. Talking to a private news channel, he said it is unlikely that we will meet the targets of education which we had determined. However, he said the government is launching a three-year National Accelerated Plan for education to minimize the loss.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 16^th, 2013.