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Safar 24, 1431 Hijri February 09, 2010

Govt Allocates 4 % OF GDP for education

Wednesday November 16, 2005 (1055 PST)

ISLAMABAD, November 16(Online): Dr Nasim Ashraf Minister of State and Chairman NCHD while inaugurating the National Consultation Conference on post Literacy said that President and Prime Minister has approved 4 % of GDP that will be allocated for education sector in Pakistan during the next year.

The Chairman NCHD said that government is committed to involve all NGO’s in attaining the targets of Universal literacy in the country. The Chairman NCHD said that NCHD literacy centers are successfully running in 76 districts of the country where 13000 literacy centers have been established in past three years and another two hundred thousands literacy centers will be opened by NCHD throughout the country in next five years.

Dr Nasim Ashraf said that to achieve the Universal literacy in Pakistan a two prong strategy based on the interventions of Universal Primary Education (UPE) and literacy has been adopted. The Chairman said that net enrolment is being increased and drop out rates reduced through the UPE and literacy interventions in the remote areas of Pakistan.

Dr Nasim Ashraf said that literacy is a big factor for gender empowerment as it focuses more on female literacy.

Mr Iqbal-ur-Rehman Chief, NCHD literacy programme said that NCHD post literacy module has already been developed , reviewed and field tested through a twice a week classes held for neo literacy which includes Quranic themes, life skills, house hold tips, information knowledge, social harmony, health and population issues.

Dr Saleem Deputy Director Education Advisor, ministry of education, Ms Anayat Ullah Ex-Chairman Literacy Communication of Pakistan and Ms Shaheen Attique-ur-Rehman Ex-literacy minister Punjab highlighted the role of NCHD in promoting literacy amongst the marginalized segments of the country.

Prof Allen Roger the international consultant on literacy who is also a renowned author of many books on the subject of literacy programs said that focus of all literacy Programmes should be to promote the life skills. He praised the efforts of NCHD, PACADE (Pakistan Association for Continuing Adult Education) and UNESCO for promoting literacy in the country.

Mr Sajjad Hassan Federal Secretary for Education chaired the closing session of the conference where representatives of Provincial literacy department of Punjab, Elementary Education foundation of NWFP, literacy department of Sindh and Balochistan along with experts on the subject of literacy were also present .The Federal Secretary thanked the participants and assured the participants about the continuous support of Federal Education Ministry to the literacy programme spear headed by NCHD.

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Dawar

Interesting comment but its more of the same what has already been discussed on Cricinfo and aforementioned blogs.

I didn’t realise you comment on this blog too, I just stumbled upon it. I hope to comment further and with the passion for cricket that we have, many are commenting on legslip.com too.

Posted by Awas http://www.legslip.com/, United Kingdom

Test & One Day series against South Africa is not start yet
and several Pakistani players became unfit.

Specially, without playing any match against South Africa,
Abdul Razak & Shoaib Malik are not fully fit.
Abdul Razak probably will miss the whole test series.

The only good thing this time is Abdul Razak announced his fitness problem prior to aboard.

From some time performance of Abdul Razak & Shoaib Malik is not satisfactory.

Specially, tour outside the country both players are not performing well
but also faces fitness problem.

Last time when our cricket team visited to Australia, Abdul Razak found his sickness just before the match.
He woke up and found himself seriously unfit (with Asthma and Weakness).

He did not play against strong Australian team.

As soon as we came back to Pakistan,
he recovered from his sickness remarkably.

And become the part of national cricket team without any proper treatment.

Board should consider fitness and form of all players.
Especially against good team like Australia, South Africa.

It looks mental level to take stress is not very strong.

Recently they unfit against good teams or in the big tournaments.

As a Pakistani I hope Pakistan will win the series,
but realistically our performance in South Africa never was good.
And chances of wining are less.

Just before world cup it looks like , Players who will not perform well against South Africa
will not be considered for world cup.

But if some players like Abdul Razzak & Sohaib Malik will not play against south africa
especially in test series, they will be automatically considered for the world cup because they did not perform bad.

They are good players but unfortunately their current performance is not satisfactory at all.

If you see the past history of Abdul Razzak quite often he become unfit in big events or against
strong team like Australia.

Before select any player for the world cup we should also consider fitness along with the form.
Otherwise player can be unfit before any crucial match.

I think PCB should work on their mental strength.

Regards,
Dawar Naqvi
CA, USA

Posted by Dawar, United States of America

No Heading ______________ Awas http://www.legslip.com/, United Kingdom (2008-04-18 22:41:26)

PCB should work on their mental strength ______________ Dawar, United States of America (2007-01-10 00:16:10)

it's difficult ______ Mohammed Dawood, Pakistan (2006-12-01 06:45:32)


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