Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto has said that drastic improvement in the nation’s literacy rate was necessary to meet aspirations of people and goals of our founding fathers.
In his message on the International Literacy Day, being observed under the aegis of UNESCO worldwide, Bilawal said illiteracy was one of the main hurdles in the development and progress of the country; therefore, every girl and boy should have equal access to education facilities.
He further stated that this was the time to seriously think about the causes for slow improvement in literacy, and steps should be taken to achieve the required maximum level of literacy level.
“Many of our perennial problems like poverty, law and order, intolerance and unemployment are deeply rooted in illiteracy,” he pointed out.
The PPP chairman appreciated the worldwide initiatives by UNESCO to fight illiteracy, while urging the federal and provincial governments to replicate these efforts in Pakistan to save “our generations from falling into illiteracy slough.”
Bilawal vowed to give top priority, in party’s manifesto, to measures for improving literacy rate and bringing millions of out-of-school children into the basic education system.