Ministry to ensure 100pc enrollment at primary level

ISLAMABAD - Despite overcrowded classrooms, lack of furniture and transportation facilities and understaffed faculty, the Ministry of Education insisted the heads of schools and colleges to ensure 100 percent enrolment at the primary level within two years.

Education Secretary Jehangir Bashar at a function titled “To Bring Out-of-School Children to Schools” Wednesday urged the heads of the schools and colleges to ensure maximum enrolment of children till August 15 and insisted on creating space for about 6,000 out of school children in the Capital.

Federal Directorate of Education Director General Atique-ur-Rehman, principals of the 410 schools and colleges of the federal capital and officials of the ministry attended the event. Javed, 9, was also among the guest who has never been to school as he is the sole bread earner for his family. His father has been died and he supports his family by selling newspapers.